A few weeks ago, a man cornered me in the pool at the gym. It was one of the most terrifying things that have ever happened to me in public, and I’m finally ready to write about it.
I had just started swimming again in July 2021, after a decade-long…
This week, I accidentally sent a sexually explicit text to my employer.
She is one of my tutoring clients, the mother of one of my students. I have my own business as a tutor for elementary-age children. …
“Do I look fat in this?”
I have a friend who is constantly asking me this question. She emerges from the bathroom in a cute outfit, makeup impeccably done, hair up, and still has the audacity to ask me this question.
I’d like to give a disclaimer that this friend…
It’s been a while since I was on Medium.
A little over two months, to be exact, which is a long time for me. I try my hardest to write at least a few times per month, even if it’s hard, even if my schedule is crazy and I am…
Maybe it happens when you’re out with friends. Your partner hasn’t texted you in a while, and you’ve been out for hours. You wonder why they haven’t bothered to check in.
Or maybe it happens when you’re looking through their phone. You’re about to navigate to Grubhub to order yourselves…
Over quarantine, I got fat.
And I don’t mean it in an I-gained-five-pounds-and-my-stomach-puffs-out-a-little-more-now way. I mean, I actually got fat. I gained upwards of thirty pounds. My body looks completely different. I am working on accepting it for what it is and developing a better relationship with food and exercise…
Why haven’t I gone viral on Medium yet?
If you’re like me, you’ve probably asked yourself this question countless times. This ever-present question consumed me when I first joined Medium, and I expected it to go away — but it didn’t. …
By now, I’m sure most of you have heard about toxic positivity.
It’s a trending topic, and people are flooding the Internet with stories and grievances and arguments about it.
Essentially, toxic positivity is optimism to a fault — the idea of being overly positive to a point where it…
Date rape*: (noun) rape committed by someone with whom the victim has gone on a date.
(verb) force (a person with whom one has gone on a date) to have sex against their will.
*Also synonymous with “acquaintance rape” and often used in the contexts of drugs labelled “date rape…
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve hated my breasts.
There was a time when they looked normal and I was semi-fine with them. But for most of my life, I’ve resented them. First, I was the early bloomer, the girl who went through puberty before everyone else and therefore…
(she/her) Writer. Teacher. Leftist. City enthusiast. Spreading love through words. Find me on IG @brooklynxreece or email me: brooklynreece.writer@gmail.com.
