An open letter to my unborn daughter after the election of Donald Trump

To my unborn daughter, due mere days after Donald Trump is elected: I imagined yesterday that I would be writing a much different letter than this one. I imagined I would write about how you’d never know any reality except for that in which a woman could be elected president. I imagined I would write …

On Brexit: What the hell, England?

I stayed up late last night watching the votes tumble in, watching my country exercise its democratic right to vote itself out of the European Union. Today is a win for xenophobia. Today is a win for fear. Today is a win for racism. For those on my timeline unfamiliar with the vote, the United …