The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed….

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear..

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free t….

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters..

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have b….

Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said.….

I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American….

I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and….

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things..

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing..

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication..

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me..

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives..

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human..

I am mortified by my music choices..

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, wha….

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institut….

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. ….

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human..

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future..

I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not conventionally attractive..