Author: The Frisky

Hate-Reading Is The Best And Worst Thing You Can Do

More often than I’d like to admit, I lose myself in the mire of an ex-boyfriend’s Twitter timeline. It’s not because I want him back, or because I spend nights thinking about what it would’ve been like had we continued our dalliance. It’s because his Twitter timeline is a heady mix of painfully earnest tweets, […]

Are Prince William and Kate Middleton Going to Be Named King and Queen of England in 2024?

“The New King and Queen!” screams the new title of one magazine these days. It talks about how Prince Charles is giving up the throne in favor of his son, Prince William, and how a one billion dollar coronation is set to be in summer 2024. In Touch is the magazine, and in their article, […]

Is There Such A Thing As “Ethics” In Public Confessional Writing?

Yesterday, xoJane published a piece that ended up causing an interesting discussion among myself and some friends. It was titled “My Liberal Parents Bragged About Me Being Queer While I Was Still Ashamed of It” — and subtitled “What do you do when your liberal parents start treating your sexual orientation as cultural capital before you […]