Thoughts
I write a lot. Essays. Articles. Blog posts. All of them sharing what I’m thinking about. Maybe you think about these things, too.
A Useless Heroine
It resonates for us, too, as we feel paralyzed with helplessness: it often feels like our own resistance is about saying no, about doing the right thing, and sometimes—for some of us—to die. It feels absurd and futile. And yet it is what we’re compelled to do when faced with injustice.
The Danger of Girls’ Schools
The danger of girls’ schools is that they remind us of things we’d rather forget. That we need safe spaces. That we are learning, growing, developing inside of high walls that are never high enough to keep violence out.
Finding Stories by Excavating the Past
There’s nothing more annoying than reading a novel and coming across a glaring mistake—it makes you lose trust in the writer. So it’s always been important for me to create fiction that nestles inside fact, so to speak.
The Truth is Often Inconvenient
Any attempts to restore truth as a functioning part of the cultural landscape have been only marginally successful… I recognize there are times when lying is both unavoidable and necessary. But it should never happen because the truth is inconvenient. It should never cause a government, a country, or a person to betray their humanity.
What Makes Empires Die (and why we’re up next)
So what do we do? The United States under Donald Trump (and he did not create the empire, but has mismanaged it to the point of accelerating its decline) is essentially a “dead empire walking;” it’s all but impossible to return to a healthier point in the trajectory.