Blog — KatyKatiKate

come to the table

Come to the table. I’ve saved you a seat. We can do two hard things at at time. We are exactly that strong.

Social Justice, FeminismKatie AnthonyOctober 6, 2018#metoo, feminism, intersectionality Comments

the sweet spot

Who else feels like there’s a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in their heads right now? Half the voices are thanking you for your bravery as if your bravery were enough. Half the voices are calling you insufficient and you wish you didn’t believe them.

Who else feels like the sweet spot is there, and you’re just too salty for it?

FeminismKatie AnthonyOctober 4, 2018pep talk, women's voices, women's work Comments

kavanaugh avoidance theory parenting

I can’t be the only parent whose parenting has taken a hard right this week. I’m laser-focused on surgically removing any Kavanaughisms from my sons.

Family, Feminism, Just For FunKatie AnthonyOctober 2, 2018raising good humans, parent fail, feminism, #metoo Comments

you could say we're pissed

I want to pepper spray Chuck Grassley in the asshole. You could say we’re pissed.

FeminismKatie AnthonySeptember 28, 2018rage stroke, #metoo, women's voices, chad academy Comments

how to support your loved ones during hell week

Welcome to hell week. Want to support your loved ones as they fight to keep their heads above water? Here are some tips.

Feminism, Family, Social JusticeKatie AnthonySeptember 26, 2018#metoo, advice (unreliable), chad academyComment

(it's not really about blackberries)

They don’t grow so much as they explode like a virus in a sneeze. Someone plants one spiny little bitch without asking, and before you know it you’ve got blackberries creeping through the dirt in the raised beds you built yourself… all you can think about are the broad green leaves you picked, planted, worked for, wanted, but will never see.

Feminism, Social JusticeKatie AnthonySeptember 24, 2018poem, friendship, women's work, women's voices Comment

a word about innocent until proven guilty

I don’t have a burden of proof to satisfy in order to say what I know, in my gut, is true. You know why I don’t have proof? Because most sexual assaults don’t happen in front of witnesses. You know why my gut tells me it’s true? Because mine didn’t. Not any of them.

FeminismKatie AnthonySeptember 23, 2018rage stroke, sex & consent, #metoo Comments

#WhyIDidntReport

It occurs to me that unasked-for bacon bits are a lot like sexual violence. Stick with me.

FeminismKatie AnthonySeptember 21, 2018#metoo, women's voices, sex & consentComment

Jian Gaslight

I just read Jian Ghomeshi's piece in the New York Review of Books. Yes, the whole thing. Yes, multiple times. I await some sort of prize for reading the entire bag of lukewarm bile without putting my fist through a wall, vomiting into the fist-hole, and dropping my phone into the vomit in the fist hole while saying, "I FUCKING QUIT."

FeminismKatie AnthonySeptember 18, 2018#metoo, rage stroke, chad academy Comment