Rape culture is alive and real. Specificity can help us address it — Author’s note: it has been pointed out by many commenters that, “believe women,” was used much more frequently than, “believe all women,” during the #MeToo movement. They are correct. You can see the Google Trends data here. “Believe women,” was the original phrase. …

Within my lifetime, will summers ever be the same? Will beach days become smoke-drenched memories? And how will the forests change? Will I recognize them when I’m old? Will they die? Or will we begin to appreciate the forest as its own intelligence, as we advance? Will we learn the…

An examination of life through The Veil of Ignorance — Suppose we all sat, outside of bodies. We would be souls, perhaps, without sex, gender, age, wealth, race, status, country, culture, or differentiating qualities of any kind. Our job? To determine what the world should be, before we know anything about who we will be within it. This place, as…

A critique of gender norms through the lens of shoe design — and also a critique of most shoes, generally — Have you seen women’s shoes? Flats, I mean. Or those abominations deemed “business casual footwear.” They’re so strange-looking. So abstract. If you showed some heels to a person outside of society — someone who had been raised by wolves or apes, perhaps — I doubt you could convince them that…

There are often conflicting motivations for what a person does — I figured that any list of the reasons I write would be a long one. So, I went ahead and wrote it. Hopefully, the reason it has exactly forty-two items is obvious. People often wonder who someone writes for. Do they write for themselves? For someone else? That question doesn’t…

Shape poetry for the end of Roe v. Wade — a mother screams about dead babies. she means it, with her bloody sign: some fetus with eyes & in those eyes I see all those who will be forced to give birth to corpses or children or broken dreams & I grieve the loss of equality yes…

They’re genuine questions. Please answer one or a few, if you have the time. — Admittedly, I’m frustrated with the state of political discourse, and the ways in which abortion, particularly, tends to be discussed. While I believe abortion should be broadly legal, many (not all) of the pro-choice arguments shared through social media bother me. They often seem to be directed toward people who…

In a sense, they’re one and the same. — The figure above and to the left is Kali, the Hindu goddess of death, time, love, and radical change. To the right is Tara — one of Kali’s manifestations, of which she has many. Chinnamasta (another manifestation and a goddess of transformation) walks decapitated with her head in her hands…

A poem on perfect altruism & sensual desire — I want to love incorrigibly with liquid song & gaping awe. I want to love with my tongue my fingers, my indecisive skin & to take issue with this is to take issue with a watering: a flower: just opening to — light, pores of choral or Sky herself with…