Writing

Click on the images above to view my writing for each site.

View my latest writing at Muckrack. View more of it at Clippings and Contently.

Read some of my best pieces:

The Sexist Undertones of Wedding Marketing (The New York Times)

Creating a Name for Themselves (The New York Times)

Forget the Fancy Proposal. Let’s Just Get Married (The New York Times)

These Christian leaders embraced sex positivity — and now preach it (The Washington Post)

“I’ve Gained My Life Back”: New Tests May Help Those With Persistent Urinary Tract Infections (The Washington Post)

Body positivity has brought us plus-size pageants and models. It also means we objectify more women (The Washington Post)

The social justice teach-in hosted by college professors on Twitter, no tuition required (The Washington Post)

When I Get Back to My Body (The Establishment)

A Nudist Resort Promised to Liberate Me But Objectified Me Instead (Elle)

I Thought I Could Only Say “No” Until I Was Asked to Say “Yes” (The Establishment)

Don’t Touch Me Just Because I’m Topless (Harper’s Bazaar)

Female Friendship Isn’t Foreplay (Playboy)

How Scientists’ View of Schrodinger’s Cat Is Evolving (Science 101)

We Need to Stop Normalizing Period Pain (Folks)

I Traveled 4,000 Miles to Break Up With My Boyfriend in Person (New York Magazine)

7 Things to Know About Birth Control If You Are Transgender or Nonbinary (Teen Vogue)

9 Things People Get Wrong About Being Non-Binary (Teen Vogue)

Here’s What Swinging, Open Relationships, and Polyamory Look Like (Men’s Health)

I Went to a Masturbation Class in Search of My Biggest Orgasm Yet (Harper’s Bazaar)

A Psychological Explanation for Why Getting Compliments Is So Embarrassing (New York Magazine)

What a Fake “Female Orgasm” Statistic Says About Gender Bias (The Establishment)

How “Love Your Body” Became A Marketing Slogan (The Establishment)

The problem with calling Harvey Weinstein ugly (Vox)

Doing It Like Men: Did “Sex and the City” Really Revolutionize Sex On TV? (Bitch Media)

The Embarrassing Private Languages of Couples (New York Magazine)

To Whoever Called My Hotel Room While I Was Masturbating (The Establishment)

I Don’t Believe in Souls, But My Soul Does (Prospect)

The push to legalize psychedelics has ignored Indigenous communities (Mic)

It’s Exhausting to Love Your Body, So I Won’t (Marie Claire)

How Nude Modeling Helped Me Recover From An Eating Disorder (Self)

Why we need to stop celebrating overprotective fathers (The Washington Post)

12 Reasons Why There’s Orgasm Inequity (And No, It’s Not That Women Are ‘Harder to Please’) (Everyday Feminism)

Is Sex Addiction Real? (Vice)

The Growing World of Anonymous Dick Pic Appreciation Sites (Vice)

7 Ways to Tell If Your Partner Might Be Manipulative (Everyday Feminism)

7 Myths About Women and Masturbation It’s Time to Unlearn Right Now (Everyday Feminism)

Why Are Sex Robots All Female? Because the ‘Ideal Woman’ Is a Robot (Glamour)

‘Fear of the Clit’: A Brief History of Medical Books Erasing Women’s Genitalia (Vice)

How Taylor Swift Helped Me Stop ‘Overthinking’ My Own Sexual Assault (Glamour)

We Need to Talk About Sexual Assault Within the Psychedelic Community (High Times)

“I Was 17 When My Boyfriend Sold Me for Sex” (Seventeen)

How To Have Your First Orgasm: A Primer for Cisgender Women (Scarleteen)

The Necessity of Academic Feminism (Signs journal)

Why We Try (And Fail) To Keep Sunk Costs Afloat (Footnote)

Dancing With Snakes (a poem published in Impossible Task)

Gendered Binaries in Eating Disorder Narratives (my college thesis!)