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“Now that I don’t identify solely as female, I don’t have to have this female shame around my facial hair."

Angry male nerds have built careers, epic narratives, a whole identity on being victims.

Tala Brandeis, my brilliant tattoo artist, has left us. The reflection of her audacity lit a lot of people’s way.

We at Ravishly want to make the world a better place. This starts with making ourselves better—as individuals and as a team.

The people who love Leelah for who she was and was never allowed to be will do right by her. Her sisters will do better.

For me, day-to-day feminism in action is creating safer spaces for women—the ones I know and especially the ones I do not.

I am a woman in a world meticulously manicured to only allow certain women to occupy womanhood.

Whenever a man who plays a dad on television is uncovered to be uncouth, why do we feign the motions of disbelief?

writer. zinester. notebook bondage enthusiast.

We are not exempt from internalizing messages inherent in patriarchy. But I have found that we can resist and challenge these narratives.