by Dahlia | Mar 28, 2014 | Journal
My favorite color is fuchsia. I call it fuck you pink. (Get it?) I didn’t grow up in one of those households where everything I had was pink. I didn’t have twinkly stars on things, or pink glittery streamers on my bicycle. My mother never wore makeup so no...
by Dahlia | Mar 25, 2014 | Journal
I’ll confess I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I had to finish three term papers and two courses and attend a conference, so accept my apologies. But better late than never, right? It’s been a couple weeks since Sheryl Sandberg launched...
by Dahlia | Feb 27, 2014 | Journal
I recently received this letter from one of my readers: I haven’t had much success with men and, the majority of the time, I thought it was them. Granted, there were several men who were legitimate assholes that deserved to be dismissed. However, there were...
by Dahlia | Feb 13, 2014 | Journal
Love is a peculiar thing. So many people want it, so many people crave it, so many write about it and sing about it and commodify it—and yet it remains elusive, hard to find while also seemingly everywhere. There is the love between mother and child, between pet and...
by Dahlia | Feb 7, 2014 | Journal
There has been quite a bit of cyber-ink spilled recently about the shameless new Shakira/Rihanna video and its faux-lesbian posturing. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mP3mJDL2k&w=560&h=315] Regardless of whether or not faux-lesbians (or Shakira) are...
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