I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.