The Rich Don’t Think We’re Poor, They Think We’re Stupid
My first full-time job out of college was as a technical editor for a small startup in Philadelphia. My boss was my age, in his early twenties, and hired me to join his team of […]
Articles by Nicole Hallberg
Fight the Environmental War at Home
Maybe you’re feeling a little bit like the world is going all to hell around you, like I am this week. The earth is heating and the ice caps are melting and the polar bears are fucked […]
Thoughts on Black Panther
I’ll be the first to say that my thoughts on Black Panther as a white woman are to be taken with a grain of salt. It doesn’t really matter how I experienced the film because […]
Who Is Trump Going to Turn Me Into?
There has been an uncomfortable thought nagging at the back of my mind for some time now. It bobs at the surface again every time I read another headline about the Cheeto. I think to […]
Net Neutrality is Threatening to Break My Give-a-Damn
When I heard that FCC chairman Ajit Pai was gunning to dismantle Net Neutrality rules, I just sighed. I was so, so tired. I thought about what I would be losing if my phone and […]
Better Media Can Make Us All Less Racist
Our brains are really good at finding patterns. This makes us great at performing simple tasks quickly and efficiently. It also makes us racist as hell. Let me tell you about a time I participated […]
What’s In a Name?
Yesterday, I was asked by a Twitter follower why I didn’t choose to change my name on my online work. She asks because I am most well known online at this point for an experiment […]
The Liberal Purity Problem
There is a guy that goes to the bar around the corner from my house. We’ve only ever chatted a few times as I went out for drinks with my husband. I’ve always been polite. […]
When Words Don’t Mean Anything Anymore
I first started to feel it while Trump was on the campaign trail. Trump was saying grosser and grosser things, and by the time it occurred to me that he wasn’t just a sideshow but […]
When Corporations Can Sponsor State Violence, We Lose
I was browsing Twitter the other day, and United Airlines was literally all anyone was talking about for almost two days. This is noteworthy even just because it gave me a short reprieve from having […]