Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.