Sleeping with knives
Sex on Tuesday
Brandishing a steak knife against her neck, he told her his intent to slit her throat open. He pulled out a blindfold and tied it tightly around her head.
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No “romance” option: How Dragon Age depicts sexuality
Pressing Restart
Dragon Age’s Morrigan had given me role-playing experience where I was a woman interested in another woman, and I couldn’t do jack about it.
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Settling into campus
Berkeley Got Back
Despite its stunning appearance, UC Berkeley, like much of the United States, is tainted by a history of dispossession of indigenous land and culture.
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My motherhood, my business
Your Mom Goes To College
If I was in class, where could my son possibly be if not with his mother?
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Fantastic kinks and where to find them
As our Lyft driver pulled up a street away from 8th and Folsom, a man in assless underwear sprinted towards what we could only assume was his kinky oasis.
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How my boyfriend virtually tried to kill me
Pressing Restart
I was holding off the enemy team and healing allies as the character Mercy when a bullet from the Widowmaker’s sniper rifle flew past me. My blood ran cold.
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Past, present and absence
Berkeley Got Back
As an intended sociology (and political science) major, I am accustomed to hearing deprecating remarks about my field from peers studying in other, more “legitimate” departments. In fact, I join in on the fun. Teasing myself is one way to cope with crippling anxiety over my future career. Of course,
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Free the nipple
Your Mom Goes to College
Last fall, I saw the only man in the world that had never seen a boob.
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Queef, queef, who’s there?
Sex on Tuesday
He grunted seductively: “Yeah … let that pussy speak,” as each and every vigorous thrust unleashed a crescendo of moist quacks from her glistening hole
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A rule of thumb for nuclear war
Pressing Restart
Look toward the horizon. Close one eye. Stick out your arm and hold your thumb over the mushroom cloud looming in the distance. If the cloud is bigger than your thumb, run. Run as fast as you can. This “rule of thumb” has been circulated online as an underground survival
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