People say that writing is an act of defiance. And though I hear it often, the sentiment still sits a little oddly with me. Most writing probably pushes back against something—silence, confusion, the absence of a story you'd like to hear. But when I think about why I...

Somewhere between the cultural obsession with “harder punishments for crimes” and the flood of female fantasy characters who all know how to wield a sword, I started asking myself a question: is this really what we were going for? We’ve made progress, sure. Women now...