The Beautiful Sentence

Every day, our cultural narrative posits that there is racism without racists, sexual assault without aggressors, rape without rapists.

One of those truly magical things that human beings can do together is to create harmony, to create a third thing that wasn’t there before the two decided to cooperate.

We’re obsessed with gender and categorization, so if we’re not casting women aside for being old and irrelevant, we’re fetishizing them to marginalize their power.

Skincare articles by young writers may effectively silence the voice of the middle-aged woman, yet they fail to silence the writers’ fear of that woman.

Let us be true, even if we are ugly.

My acting school was acting.

The vague sense of torpor and gloom that so many Americans have shouldered these past two years derives precisely from the constancy of Trump’s galling statements and actions.

The internet seemed to resent its own enjoyment.

Without the artificial coloring FD&C Yellow No. 6, Cheetos Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks would look like the shriveled larvae of a large insect.

Her indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies, whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

The journalism that you consume IS the interesting part of the media.

The times I've felt most desolate, most inconsolable, were times when I wrote faithfully and didn't receive the same in return. For someone to write back was to say *I read your words, I know you, I see you, I want you to write again*.