Heather Dockray
Contributing writer
Heather Dockray is a writer-storyteller-sometimes-performer living in New York. She's written for a number of publications, including VICE, Splitsider, and Uproxx, and was once a featured Buzzfeed GIF. Prior to becoming a writer, Heather spent years as a mad scientist children's birthday party entertainer.
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What Would You Do With Your Last Day of Internet? Who would you friend? Defriend? Caps-lock comma-free call out?
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To Entertain Rescue Dogs, This Flawless Retiree Built a Specialty “Dog Train” Life as a stray dog ain’t pretty, so this 80-year-old welder takes them on field trips.
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Liberals and Trump Can Agree on One Thing: They Both Hate Fox News In a Tweet written earlier today, Trump announced he’d be boycotting the historically partisan station.
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Volkswagen Successfully Follows up Big Lie With Even Bigger One How a dusty government agency defeated a big bad company.
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New Tool Finally Allows Women to Map Incidents of Street Harassment Women can share where they’ve been harassed, and where they can find help.
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Hero Successfully Shuts Down Anti-Gay Preacher with Bagpipes This teen was tired of hearing hate in his town. So he fought back—with bagpipes.
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The Science Behind Richard Dawkins’ Problem with Ahmed Mohamed Why one of the world’s most celebrated scientists decided to attack a 14-year-old boy.
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Swedish Workers Adopt a Six-hour Workday, Everybody is Happy A group of nurses decided to cut back their hours and add on to their lives.
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Awesome Program Gives Bikes to Low-Income Kids Who Want to Learn How to Ride Child-sized bikes come to children, entirely free.
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How Donald Trump and Jeb Bush Steal Feminist Language To Hurt Women Bush preaches identity politics, while Trump claims that he’s a victim of gendered “double standards.”
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Target Workers Vote to Form First Union in Company’s History Employees of a Brooklyn Target pharmacy decided that they had had enough.
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Meet Division I Football’s Only Openly Gay Player A Princeton student came out publicly so others would, too.