Everywhere I look in the media, I see whxte* (or at the very least, whxte-passing — I don’t want to assume anybody’s race) faces where I ought to be seeing diversity. Whxtes are drastically overrepresented in Hollywood, making up the vast majority of good movie roles, while BIPOC and AAPI…

For those unfamiliar with how Slavic last names tend to work, it’s a simple sexist formula: the men’s name ends in an -i (or occasionally a -y, depending on the language), the woman’s ends in an -a. …

Like many other things we take for granted, what we call ‘’time’ is really just another act of cultural imperialism that has served as violence against the traditional ways of being of oppressed and marginalized people, who were forced to give up their traditional ways of knowing time while under…

Words that present themselves as ‘scientific’ and ‘proper’ on the surface secretly represent a threat to people of marginalized genders and sexualities. Many of us — sometimes with good intentions, other times without — often resort to using terms like ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ when we want to sound “intelligent”*, professional…

Self defence is crucial in a male-dominated world like this one, where aggressive males will often prey on those they see as being weaker or different as them for the sake of reinforcing their own sense of toxic masculinity. But how to fight back in a way that does not…

Asexual people are people who do not experience sexual attraction, and see themselves as being defined as not experiencing the desire to have sex. I think we can all see from this how incredibly problematic it is that the term we use to designate them contains the word ‘sex’ at…