Gun Control, Civil Rights, and Avoiding Orwellian Dystopia in the Age of Trump
It’s tempting to equate conservative fear over losing the right to guns with liberal fear over losing civil liberties. After all, they’re...
Two Days After Women's March, Trump Reinstates Global Gag Rule
Since this weekend’s Women’s March on Washington, I have heard a number of people ask online and in person why women are so worried about...
A Writer's Duty: 2016 Mass Shootings, Terrorism, and Police Violence
As a writer, my job (as I see it) is to make order from chaos—to bring sense and sequence to the uncomfortable, the disheartening, the...
Tragedy, Mental Illness, and Change in the Wake of Celebrity Death
Mental illness isn’t something I like to write about. It isn’t something I like to think about. Coming from a family riddled with...
