Preamble: These are going to be disjointed statements and stories — just whatever bubbles up to my surface. And I want to know what's bubbling up to your surfaces, too. (Even literally, if you feel like sharing that.) Keep coming back and leaving random, even conflicting, comments reporting on the

I have, and have written here before about, packing-related PTSD. It's tied to the time in my life that I was the most terrified/inconsolable/out of control/out of my element/depressed, which started when I was packing up my trunks to go away to Andover for boarding school. Ever since ...Continue

I am in the shittiest mood today. I'm kind of kidding, but I'm really, really sleep-deprived and in the middle of coordinating moving into an apartment that I saw for about five whole minutes the other day. Having things is such a hassle! You know what would be so freeing? A house fire. I

So, this is going to be a transition-less Open Thread intro — one where no segues between paragraphs are necessary. Likewise, your comments here don't have to adhere to any writing "best practices" either. Isn't that nice and freeing? Pal/xoJane contributor/convenient ...Continue reading 

I don't have anything this week except for getting us all competitively riled up to register people to vote, which is so boring, but we can make it fun and game-like. Apparently the number of new voters xoJane readers registered to vote through our widget is so far only in the double ...Continue