Natalie Slaughter
Bio
Natalie is a former Texan currently living in LA who enjoys politics, cooking, video games, comic books and spending more money than she should at ModCloth. She takes her nerd title as seriously as she does her writing and believes anything's a good story if you tell it right.
Natalie Slaughter Articles
Let’s be real: pursuing you passion is a luxury reserved for the privileged. Read...
It’s time to shut up and listen. Read...
My size is always weighed over my qualifications. Read...
Why is Marvel casting white actors to play Asian characters?
Read...To claim that something is “just politics” is to point out how much privilege you have, either systematically or incidentally.
Read...At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.
Read...Even a Google search will conflate “queer women” with “lesbian.” So the first and most obvious thing I wish people understood about being a queer woman, is that we exist.
Read...Depression is with you forever. Sometimes it’s like a gentle rain you can keep walking through; other times it’s like a tidal wave, dragging you under, no matter how much you struggle to come up for air. Read...
We’ve all made bad choices when it comes to dating. Mine involves Hannah Montana, a tractor, and an awkward invitation to a threesome.
Read...I barely had a chance to say “What’s taking him so long?” before he stepped up to the counter to ask me what he could help me with. Me. Not my friend who had been standing there for a minimum of twenty minutes waiting for assistance, but ME, the white girl.
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