My Top Posts this Year (and a sale)

I wrote a lot this year. Some of it still makes me proud.

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I’m entering a difficult few weeks for my family, as my husband recovers from a much-needed but difficult surgery. I’ll be in primary parent mode this week, and hopefully back to writing weekly next week when my kid is back at school. But I wanted to pop in to do a little round-up of a few of my top posts this year—now out from behind the paywall. This will give you a taste of what to expect from me if you subscribe (now for a reduced rate of 20% off for the next week!) as I continue to make this my primary spot for writing publicly about misogyny, rape culture, fatphobia, and their many intersections.

My new logo, as of last month.

There’s a lot to speak out about at the moment. There’s a lot to hate, frankly. But I’m proud to have built this up into a vibrant community—now over 12k members strong—and excited to see how it will grow in 2025. I’ve always wanted to be able to write in rapid-response mode, and now that I can, I’m loving it. I love your comments. I love your emails. And I’m thankful for your readership, your thoughtfulness, your solidarity.

So, without further ado, here are the posts that got the biggest reactions from readers this year.

If there’s a lesson for me here, it’s that you want to read more about the massive problem of misogynistic indifference, and the way that, even if we can’t directly address the wrongdoing of malevolent second parties, we can and must take on the way that third parties let it happen. We must find a way to stop the shrugging. So a significant part of the solution to this problem lies simply—or not so simply—in facing up to it soberly. We must find a way to bear witness as well as advocate for girls and women and all gender-marginalized people, including those who are trans and non-binary. We must, in other words, find a way to be better (and, always, intersectional) feminists.

Happy New Year, friends. May it be a less eventful one with, you know, more to love, and less to hate.