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“The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” by Junot Díaz in The New Yorker

“The Rage of the Incels” by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker

“One Year of #MeToo: A Younger Generation’s Remedy for Rage” by Amanda Petrusich in The New Yorker

“Unheard Grief, Unmovable Men: How an Old Mexican Folktale Speaks to Our Pain Today” by John Paul Brammer in Catapult

“How Fairy Tales Teach Us to Love the Unknowable” by Cate Frick in Catapult

“I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore” by Leslie Jamison in The New York Times Magazine

“Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity” by Lauren Oyer in The New York Times Magazine

“Is Television Ready for Angry Women?” by Sophie Gilbert in The Atlantic

“Do Beyoncé Fans Have to Forgive Jay-Z?” by Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic

“How Famous Women Clean Up After Men” by Soraya Roberts in Longreads

“The Miracle of the Mundane” by Heather Havrilesky in LongReads

“Sharp Objects Finale Recap: Don’t Tell Mama” by Angelica Jade Bastien in Vulture

In Conversation: Kathleen Turner in Vulture

“Why 536 was the worst year to be alive” by Ann Gibbons in Science Magazine

“When Priyanka Met Nick: A Love Story” by Abby Aguirre in Vogue

“The Female Price of Male Pleasure” by Lili Loofbourow in The Week

“We Need to Start Taking Young Women’s Love Stories Seriously” by Marian Crotty in Electric Literature

“Female Agency in Movies” by Kellie Herson in The Outline

“Mourning for the Void” by Hazel Cills in Jezebel

“Cracked Fairy Tales and the Holocaust” by Sabrina Orah Mark in The Paris Review

“How to Be Pretty On TV” by Elisa Gabbert in LitHub

“Your American Dream Baby” by Vivian Zhu on her personal blog

“We Prioritize Boys’ Suffering At Girls’ Expense” by Shannon Keating in BuzzFeed

“You Owe Me An Apology” by Brittany Packnett in Elle

i got Cs, Ds, and Fs in high school and dropped out. fast forward six years and i have an associate’s degree with honors, a 4.0 in a STEM major at an R1, i’ve worked in a lot of cool places, and i’m having the time of my life in my twenties. i still struggle, especially financially, but good things are happening that i couldn’t dream of when i was 16 and lonely in a world that would’ve seen me dead.

aries: when you’ve been ready to go for hours and everyone else isn’t even out of bed yet

taurus: when you wait happily for someone even if you’re tired but they can’t find the patience to wait for you

gemini: when you go to an antique store and want to look at everything but your friends get bored and leave you behind

cancer: that last bit of hope you hold onto even though you know something is going to go wrong

leo: when you give someone a really great present for their birthday but they don’t even remember yours

virgo: knowing exactly how something is going to play out but trying to convince yourself that it’ll go a different way

libra: when all your friends have relationship problems and you help them through it but you’re still single

scorpio: that sinking gut feeling when you see someone you like with someone else even though you know you’re better

sagittarius: when you want to ride the biggest roller coaster at the park but your friends are too afraid so you do it by yourself

capricorn: working on a project for weeks to make sure it’s perfect and someone else does better than you with half the effort

aquarius: when you feel manic or out of touch with reality but everyone else seems to be going along just fine