Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental….

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too..

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attenti….

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children….

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are ….

I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting i….

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for ….

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sli….

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman ma….

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight..

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even wha….

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We s….

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility..

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information wa….

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time..

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me..

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her rig….

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism..

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewi….

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gende….

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even….