Any feminist who has ever taken the high road will tell you the high road gets backed up and sometimes we need to take a detour straight through the … - Andrea Gibson

Do you know they’ve found landmines

in broken women’s souls?

In gym class, a girl called me a dyke and I didn't have the language to tell her she was wrong and right. I just showed up at her house promising to paint my fingernails red with what would gush from her busted face if she ever said it again.

I grew up in the town that received the first distress signal saying the Titanic was going down. It was the only thing we were ever renowned for. In fact, we prided ourselves on our failure to save the sinking, which is maybe part of the reason I prided myself on drinking my first fifth of whiskey at twelve years old. It's cold where I come from. I learned to drown young.