When I was deciding what outfit to wear to the US Open today to see my favorite athlete of all-time vie for her 24th Grand Slam title, I knew I wanted to make a statement that both felt of-the-moment and of-Serena. So I settled on a Nasty Woman t-shirt (hey, Sam Bee)...
Everybody’s woke bae/BFF Aziz Ansari was thrown into the #MeToo spotlight over the weekend after babe.net published a story involving a sexual encounter between Ansari and a 23 year old woman. An encounter she defined as sexual assault and one in which he...
I can’t stop thinking about Rebecca Traister’s amazing piece in NY Mag about the so-called “reckoning” that is happening post-Weinstein. I would never do her the disservice of trying to paraphrase or cause you to not read it, so please, yes,...
In September, I finished NPR’s Greatest 150 Albums by Women. A project that took me two months to finish. I heard Ann Powers discussing the project with Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition on the drive into work in late July. I’ve never been so excited to open Spotify...
I’ve spoken about this before, but I feel a responsibility to again, so here goes. There is a fundamental flaw in the way we talk about sexual assault, harassment, and rape. The below, from RAINN’s main statistics page, is a perfect example: The...
