In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.