Before I finally quit my job, I had desperately wanted to leave for at least five months. I had the same response every morning before going in to work. “Groan [expletive] [expletive] [expletive].” It was a solid job, and if I wanted to, I could have stayed in the role…

Feminist work doesn’t mean that you only work for the improvement for other women and not yourself. My qualm is specifically with women who focus on gaining more power for themselves without thought to whether their path to power oppresses other women. And if it does, those same women don’t…

For way too long, I believed that 30 was a magical age. I thought that once you hit that age you just became an adult. That’s how it went. At 30, I imagined that a person’s brain changed to accommodate all of the challenges they would face as an adult…

My eyes lit up when I saw his photo. He was a tall, olive-skinned man. He had a determined glint in his eyes. He could slice onions with his jawline, and he claimed to be well-educated. I thought I had hit the jackpot when he messaged me, especially because his…

“What do you mean I have arthritis?” A few years ago, I began experiencing debilitating pain on the right lower quadrant of my abdomen. Walking became difficult because each step would exacerbate the pain. Along with that, sleeping on my side became next to impossible because the pressure on my right hip would cause me to wince. …

I was in my late 20s when I met him. At the time, I didn’t think that my level of self-hate could get any worse. But it did. The proof was in the fact that I continued to spend time with somebody like this guy. …

Closure. What if you had never heard this word, never learned what it meant, never let it become the mystical treatment for your ailment? I have thought about closure a lot. I’ll be honest- every single time I’ve wanted closure in the past, I haven’t really known what that meant. I…

How often do you tell yourself that you just don’t have time to work on your goals? You wouldn’t be alone, and you wouldn’t be in bad company either. There are plenty of people brimming with potential who hold themselves back by convincing themselves that they don’t have the time. …

I grew up hearing that I would deeply regret not taking my elders’ advice. That I would regret it if I didn’t build my life according to their rules. In fact, ‘building my life’ implies more agency than women were taught to have. …