About

As a freelance writer, editor, and critic, I write about gender, the environment, poverty, media, and technology - and often, some combination of these themes. Occasionally, I write about religion, politics, and relationships. I tend to do the latter under a pen name.

Currently, I'm an editor for the Feminist Review, a writer for Change.org, and a frequent contributor to a variety of progressive publications such as Bitch, The Frisky, and Herizons. I've been published by the New York Times, ZNet, In These Times, make/shift, and truthout. I've also contributed to half a dozen encyclopedias and a few zines.

I earned concurrent bachelor's degrees in communication, women's studies, and psychology from the University of Iowa and received my master's of visual and media arts from Emerson College in 2008.

I currently live and work in Copenhagen, Denmark with my partner Andreas and our catness, Malcolm.

Frequent answers

Likes: avocadoes, trashy Euro house, sleeping with the windows open, sterility, traveling with purpose, contemporary art, (my 1987 diesel) Mercedes Benz, bundling up, dance-punk, compassion, marzipan, the Balkans, aesthetics of cigarette smoking, chess, vintage cameras and photography, Batman, clotheslines, acupuncture, snail mail, decaf espresso, grandparents, hygge, nostalgia

Dislikes: fundamentalists, speciesism, migraines, GMOs, technophiles, monolithic definitions of love and/or marriage, being photographed, licorice, myopia

In a past life, I worked in non-commercial radio and was an online video nerd. I spoke at a bunch of conferences in NYC, San Francisco, Boston, and Ankara, Turkey. My work was featured on Boing Boing.

An activist at heart, I used to do anti-street harassment organizing and was interviewed by the Boston Globe about my work. I still fight street harassment, but because I currently live in one of the safest cities in the world, it'd be a bit disingenuous to pretend my activism is not strictly text-based.

I believe in the necessity of furniture and the indispensability of print media.