Here’s how to rewrite your story

Burlesque class taught me to love my body

My white friend Vicki let me live vicariously through her — until she didn’t

By conforming to a stereotype of what it means to be androgynous, Mattel’s dolls do more harm than good

Thirty years ago I promised to stay true to my talents. It worked out.

Our most damaging critics are the people we used to be

Notes on teaching at a school for high-risk students

On the healing fantasy of thinness, and what your before and after photos tell the fat people in your life

Life as a music lover who doesn’t fully appreciate the music part

An open letter from the mom of a kid with a rare disability

The Black girls who died in Alabama didn’t know me, but they forever impacted my life

Learning that self-discovery is a process, not a punishment

Growing up bisexual in the Mexican city of Morelia wounded me, but it also gave me strength

The media puts trans women in a box. I dare to step outside it.

I had never met a horse before. Suddenly, I was caring for five of them.

Jonathan Franzen and the fraught politics of resignation

Lesson #1: “You black (and that’s a problem).”

Is ‘professionalism’ more important than discouraging gender-based violence?

A meditation on black art and representation

You can’t topple the patriarchy without a plan

Lessons in looking at the dark and light sides of human nature

I grew up a straight, black, inner-city kid dreaming of living somewhere as safe and beautiful as Stars Hollow

A modern commuter’s musings on uncertainty

On reconciling sexist lyrics with my feminist and Genderqueer awakenings