Western culture likes to depict pregnancy as some blissful experience. For a lot of people, it's a risky--even life-threatening--experience.
Did Anyone Mention Gender Identity Includes Boy and Girl?
Laws banning discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity are front-page news. But they seem to be overreaching on a lot of fronts.
Can Mpreg Escape Bio-Essentialist Messaging?
You'd think a guy getting pregnant circumvents the biological essentialist standpoint. But mpreg often has a lot of bio-essentialist stances.
We Made Gender Up
Some people think gender and biological sex are linked. In reality, we kind of made up everything about what makes a man or a woman.
Second Wave Feminism Got It Wrong
Second wave feminism tried to dismantle more than the first wave. But 50 years on, we're still fixing what the 1960s and '70s got wrong.
A New Breed of Alpha: The Soft Alpha in Omegaverse
We all know the stereotypical omegaverse alpha character: growly, possessive, jealous, and so on. Do all alphas have to be like that though?
Why Doesn’t Publishing Love Romance Novels Back?
Romance novels are the industry heavy-hitter, but everywhere we turn, they get slagged on. What's up with that?
The Dark Side of Purity Culture
On the surface, a culture that promotes innocence seems pretty harmless. Underneath, purity culture is much more sinister.
The War on Sex Returns: Why Is Sex Work So Reviled?
Sex work is considered pretty bad in our society, but not everyone has viewed it that way. Modern arguments against it tend not to hold water, and most of the problems don't originate in the profession itself, but with how society treats it.
Bodily Autonomy: Abortion in Mpreg
Mpreg isn't always a genre that considers abortion. But we need to be cautious about the subtle messages we could be imparting in our works.