Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women
I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it…
How I Missed Out On Over $350,000 Working in Technology
It’s been a weird and windy road since my 11-year-old-self lost a chess match to an IBM 360 in 1970. Let me be upfront about this — my degree is…
Anne Sexton’s Sensual Love Poem “Song for a Lady,” in an Animation Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“So many doors open when you are present with an angle.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde review – prophetic and necessary
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting…
Hugh Hefner: Misogyny, Sexual Exploitation and White Male Liberalism
So this fantasyland of “free love” was really about emotional manipulation of women who were financially and emotionally vulnerable. And so it begins. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy King is dead,…
Women Aren’t Nags—We’re Just Fed Up
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
Hugh Hefner is no ‘hero’ – he built an empire on misogyny
We shouldn't let the Playboy founder's death mask the fact that he normalised the sexual objectification of women, argues Claire Heuchan Reading all of the glowing tributes to Hugh Hefner,…
How Writing Closed Captions Turned Me off TV For Good
Post-MFA, a writer spends time in the captioning trenches
How to Write About Your Ancestral Village
You buy a one-way ticket to Beijing, and tell your mother you are traveling alone to figure out if China might be the answer.