"Women’s free speech is under attack."

[Content Note: Harassment; threats of violence; misogyny; racism; silencing.]

Recently, I was interviewed by Kelly Diels for a piece she was writing for Salon about internet harassment of female writers. The piece is now available here, and it gives just a peek into the personal cost of being a woman writing online, and exposes the fallacy about the legal recourse we are presumed to have.

I'm not even going to excerpt it. Just go read the whole thing.

Please.

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