It was hidden beneath layers of black clothes. When I’d find myself alone in a rest room, I’d look in the mirror and lift my shirt to reveal the fuzzy underarms, a shock of hair that felt luxuriously soft and foreign. Arm-pit hair serves an evolutionary purpose. It helps waft our scent to the noses [...]
I felt like I couldn’t exhale. I had been walking around all weekend, sucking air into my cheeks, smiling and waiting for the family weekend to end so I could collapse in the car and possibly die on the way back to Chicago. But, that is not how it happened. Instead, I erupted. It was [...]
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A make-up tutorial video done in reverse while I attempt to answer the question: why do women wear makeup? Overview: Why do women wear make-up? I wear and enjoy make-up. In one sense, it is a way to express yourself, your mood and your interior life. I love the whole transformation process and I an [...]
I walked hurriedly, but slowed to check myself out in the dark window of a restaurant. Making mirror-face, I pouted my lips and fluffed my hair. Then, I saw that this was the place. Into the door, I realized with slight embarrassment I’d been checking myself out in the window at the booth where he [...]
I sat on the couch, symmetrically, both feet on the floor and my eyes closed. The inside-world projected behind my eyelids was just as real as the couch beneath me, or the therapist facing me. In that space, I saw a younger version of myself. In the woods, she played a secret game of slowly [...]
“Whats your sign” used to be a joke of a pick-up line, reserved for dudes in polyester with male pattern baldness. At least that is what I gathered from watching Nick at Night as a kid. When I hear “What’s your sign” it is usually a question with a woman attached at the end. Her [...]
My mother always told me, “Don’t have butt-sex. No, don’t ever do it!” she’d caution, arms flailing, playing her I’m-a-registered-nurse card. “That area was NOT made for that!” “Have you ever done it?” I would slyly inquire. To this, she’d give a huff and an almost believably-acted, “No!” At the time, I hadn’t done it [...]
Music is a personal experience. Some songs are so satiating, so validating they almost feel like a lost part of you re-discovered. When these songs get stuck in your head, it only re-affirms this scrawled-on-the-soul experience. “I keep waking up with this song stuck in my head–a Kate Bush song,” I said, on a November [...]
This write-up was on Bust.com “We are expected to cheer The Good Sex Workers on because they are subverting paradigms and confounding out expectations of what a stripper is. But while the media loves this story, it marginalizes all of the women who aren’t doing sex work to put themselves through college, or to pay [...]
Part 1 Part 2 I wanted to share this set of videos, because it is one of the most exciting conversations I have come across in awhile. I’ve not seen something so beautiful and thoughtful on the topic of atheism and de-conversion in, well, maybe ever. While other atheist memes are quick to point a [...]
