I've always been very concerned about what people think of me. I come from a long line of anxious people. I have more memories than I can count of the terror that welled up when my dad asked me to run into the cleaners and pick up his pressed shirts or at the prospect of having to order a pizza

A lifetime ago, I was dealing with a pretty arduous commute. To battle daily road rage, I started signing out audio books from the library. For fun, I picked them at random, sometimes not even reading the book blurb before popping the disc in my car.One day, I mistakenly borrowed a romance novel.I

Coming out is a multi-layered process, and each reveal takes an incredible amount of courage. I first discovered Jillian Keenan in a 2012 New York Times essay in which she revealed herself as a spanking fetishist. I was blown away by her bravery. Now, four years later, Jillian's debut memoir,

The field of reproductive rights is a hard thing to start researching. Anti-choice activists love to move the goalposts by changing what their main objections to abortion are — Fetal pain! Women’s mental health! The breakdown of the nuclear family! Sexual promiscuity!) — and change the definition

Obviously y'all like to read my words because of all the sports I talk about. "NOT!" ~ Wayne Campbell. When you think of Louise Hung, xoJane writer, you may think of terrible photographs, living abroad, or a mongoose named Gef (or my near inability to let a week go by where I don't ...Continue