RANTING

This looks like a photo that’s been edited to appear almost drawn. Featured is a group of people waiting at some kind of bus stop-shelter. The photo is shot from above, like from a drone or the window of an apartment overlooking the stop. Of the people there, you can clearly make out a man talking to two women.

Site of Desire

Emotional as in congratulations, mental illness runs in the family. Also, coronary heart disease.

Tumblr user with false horns and a text collage displaying the words "part boy part god" over the demigender flag

QTGRL.Me Girlonline At The End of An Era

The internet in the 2010’s was a very special time and place to come of age as a trans woman. It was right at the end of old systems of categorization and identification, as well as the old internet.

Collage of various chumbox advertisement thumbnails: images of people, skin, and runny eggs.

Feelings at the Edge: A Chumbox Tour

The scene is all too familiar, the gestures rehearsed. It begins with the innocence of casual browsing, the wide-eyed wonder as you click and scroll, traipsing around some mildly interesting news article. Then it leers at you, inevitable and horrible.

A black and white ink drawing of barren plants surrounded by a thin, wiggly border

soul death in a digital dating app

Have you ever walked into a room on a warm evening and noticed an unpleasant odor? So unpleasant and complicated that it is visible to the naked eye?

I haven’t smoked for two months, yet I wake up every day with an acid taste in my mouth. The bitterness that I reflect to others mirrors the bitterness within me. It’s a bitterness so rich with associations, so raw and complicated.

The word 'power' repeated over and over down the middle of the image, in red and in gold glitter layered on top of each other on a dark yellow background. One 'power' in the middle of the screen is brighter red.

A Power Note

I want to talk about power, the great enabler of so much negative so-called ‘asshole’ behavior. We are more aware than ever that power by domination through degradation is…

FULFILLED WOMANHOOD IN DYSTOPIC SPAIN

Since the 1st January 2014, the legislation about reproductive rights in Spain has changed. If a child gets injured or contracts a life-threatening disease, one of the biological parents, preferently…

THE CONSTRUCTIVE POWER OF ANGER

You have heard it. You have, probably, lived it. “In an argument, the person who yells the first has already lost”, “there’s no greater greatness than forgiveness” and “Let it…

HIDDEN PREDATORS

I am wary of self-proclaimed “feminist” men. I have seen them too many times, they come crawling out of the woodwork every time we raise a feminist issue: “I…

I LOST 5 POUNDS IN A WEEK, ASK ME HOW

It was amazingly easy: I got an intestinal virus. The symptoms were vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pains, headaches, dizzinnes, loss of muscle tissue and weight loss. I could feel my body…

MY COMPLEX OPINION ON 50 SHADES OF GREY

Let me please start with this: I think it’s a godawful book. Long after it had become a hit, after reading comments and parodies, after hearing about it in almost…