Essays

  • It takes a village to raise a girl

    As a woman, people seem to have a lot of opinions on me. Whether it is my job, my health, my body or my marital status, everyone has a lot to say about how I should be living. How I am failing if I’m not doing x or y or z.

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  • Barbie and being Kenough

    Generally, when I watch a woman-centric movie, I am accompanied by this melancholy that stems from knowing a lot of people won’t watch it because it’s “talking about a cause I don’t relate with” or “I’m not the right audience” or “how many times will they say the same thing, we know things have to

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  • The utilitarianism of violence and other things that puzzle me #BlogchatterBlogHop

    Here are 4 things about today’s world that puzzle me [yup I’m just directly going to start]: Who runs the world? Whenever I watched Game of Thrones, the one thing that always stood out to me was how little the people who were fighting to rule Westeros and sit on the iron throne cared about

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  • How to beat the cultural zeitgeist

    Since my friends and I have crossed our 30s, it’s like our eyes have opened and we are seeing the world a little more clearly. It’s like for the first 20 years, we were sponges and now, we’re going through all that we have accumulated only to find very little of it is useful. 

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  • Queer romances v Straight romances

    Over the past two and a half years, I have read a disturbing amount of fanfiction and an okay amount of romance novels. I was going through my “read” books and saw an interesting pattern: I was reading more queer romances than straight romances. 

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  • The other side of creativity

    Any time I tell someone I’m a writer, I have received one of two questions. It’s either are you published. Or where can I read you. The second question is answered easily enough. I have a blog now and it is the most comprehensive way to read how or what I write. The first question

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  • Mind your language

    Mind your language

    What makes us human? Is it memory? Is it that we have bigger guns? Is it our brain? Maybe it is the fact that we have technology. I have noticed how most of these questions are posed and answered by the SciFi genre. 

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