What happens when you’re taught to lower your expectations? What happens when, from the earliest age, you are taught by your collective society to minimize both yourself and the things that you want for yourself? This is what you end up with: A woman is beaten every 9 seconds on

You’ve probably heard that men are more alert than women because when we were evolving, men did the hunting and therefore have better instincts for danger. Well, it’s been a couple million years since then; and in all that time, the danger persisted…for women. I present to you an exhaustive,

If you’re lucky, you’ll make it to age 30. If you’re doubly lucky, those 30 years of life will be pretty awesome. To help you in that goal, below is an exhaustive list of goals to achieve within your 20s, largely informed by one particular Asian-American woman’s experiences*. *Any resemblance

You may have heard about the Google Anti-Diversity Memo.* *Side note, looking up my reference articles for this article on Google may have been one of the most meta things I have ever done. If not, the basic story is that an engineer at Google wrote a long memo at

All shops were not created equal.  Sure, there are shops that have what you need, shops that are cool, shops that are historic…but what about mercantile meccas that make your heart feel good? If you don’t like shopping, first of all: you’re wrong. You love shopping. You love worshiping at the

No one (no one with eyes and a heart at least) doubts that we are living in scary, uncomfortable-at-best times. It’s times like these that remind me that animals are better than us. At the top of the “love you no matter what, always got you back” animal list is

San Francisco is where I learned to love food again so as a tribute to the beautiful, year-long bounty of excellence available on this coast before I brave the wilderness of Chicago, here are my favorite restaurants by neighborhood

If my vagina were a [category], it would be [example] because [reason]
“If my vagina were a state, it would be Florida because it’s often swampy and filled with danger”