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FREELANCE

Featured
Dangerous Men, Like The Air We Breathe
Dangerous Men, Like The Air We Breathe

Role Reboot

Dear America: From a White Lady Who's Trying
Dear America: From a White Lady Who's Trying

The Listening

An Open Letter to White Dudes on the Internet Who Want to Teach Me Things
An Open Letter to White Dudes on the Internet Who Want to Teach Me Things

Medium

The Rise of the Tea Party Liberal
The Rise of the Tea Party Liberal

Medium

Good Without God: Why The Boy Scouts Don’t Want My Son
Good Without God: Why The Boy Scouts Don’t Want My Son

RoleReboot

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Because It Was Preempted for a Real Housewives Marathon) Why Bernie Could Win and America Still Lose
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Because It Was Preempted for a Real Housewives Marathon) Why Bernie Could Win and America Still Lose

Medium

The Significance Of (Finally) Seeing Yourself In ‘Star Wars’
The Significance Of (Finally) Seeing Yourself In ‘Star Wars’

The Establishment

The New Star Wars Movie: A Gift To The Girls Of The ’80s
The New Star Wars Movie: A Gift To The Girls Of The ’80s

RoleReboot

When White People Don't See Black People as People
When White People Don't See Black People as People

RoleReboot

The Real Reason That Arizona Baseball Selfie Video Is Obnoxious
The Real Reason That Arizona Baseball Selfie Video Is Obnoxious

Medium

Growing Up Atheist in God's Favorite City
Growing Up Atheist in God's Favorite City

Full Grown People

“But I Have Black Friends”: How A Multiracial South Gives Dangerous Cover To Racist Behavior
“But I Have Black Friends”: How A Multiracial South Gives Dangerous Cover To Racist Behavior

RoleReboot

Are "Helpful" Strangers Endangering Our Children?
Are "Helpful" Strangers Endangering Our Children?

DAME Magaine

I Look at My Cell Phone Instead of Playing with My Children and That’s Okay
I Look at My Cell Phone Instead of Playing with My Children and That’s Okay

Time Magazine

Unapologetically Hillary 2016 — Like it or Not, She is One of Us
Unapologetically Hillary 2016 — Like it or Not, She is One of Us

Medium

UNPOPULAR OPINION: I Look at My Cell Phone Instead of Playing with My Children and That’s Okay
UNPOPULAR OPINION: I Look at My Cell Phone Instead of Playing with My Children and That’s Okay

xoJane

How RuPaul's Drag Race Made Me A Better Mother
How RuPaul's Drag Race Made Me A Better Mother

Mommyish

The Hard Truth About School Lunches: America’s Chicken Nuggets Come Home To Roost
The Hard Truth About School Lunches: America’s Chicken Nuggets Come Home To Roost

Medium

The Easy Compassion of the Internet: How a Humans of New York Photo Made Us Care about (One) Public School
The Easy Compassion of the Internet: How a Humans of New York Photo Made Us Care about (One) Public School

Medium

The All-Woman Ghostbusters Movie: A Reparation Payment to Every Girl Who Grew Up in the 80’s
The All-Woman Ghostbusters Movie: A Reparation Payment to Every Girl Who Grew Up in the 80’s

Medium

I Will Put Your Poem on the Wall
I Will Put Your Poem on the Wall

Full Grown People

Because Once I Might Have Seemed Wild
Because Once I Might Have Seemed Wild

Word Riot

 

STORIES

Featured
Intervals
Crossing the Bar
Your Mother's Mother
Beatitudes
Forgiveness Is the Fragrance That the Violet Sheds
Make Good Neighbors
Childhood, Summer
Running
You Get One Place
The Old Man Who Walked through the Field
We Are Magic
Travel Tips
The Farmer's Wife and the Crow
Ghost Stories
Sharks
What Would Your Mother Say?
The Reason for Rocking Chairs
Locked
Steal Magnolias
The Wreath
When Michael Jackson Lived on Wilson Avenue
We Can Never Go Back
Gardening
Oh Tannenbaum
 

ESSAYS

Featured
Rough Men Stand Ready
Putting Wheels on All the Race Cars - Educating and Advocating for Children with Unique Learning Issues
We Will Be Better
What Rape Culture Looks Like