
Women We Read This Week
1. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Loneliness of Donald Trump” on Lit Hub It gives me so much hope to see Rebecca Solnit rise to the…
Read More1. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Loneliness of Donald Trump” on Lit Hub It gives me so much hope to see Rebecca Solnit rise to the…
Read MoreThis might come as a shock, but this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Perhaps you’ve seen things about it in the media. With that in…
Read More1. Patricia Lockwood’s “Escape From the Convent” in New York Magazine Raves about Lockwood’s work have been all over my Twitter feed for months…
Read More1. Sarah Smarsh’s “How political nuance could save America” in The Guardian If you have not been reading Sarah Smarsh, start ASAP. Allow me…
Read More1. Rachel Monroe’s “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement” for The New Yorker Years ago, when my husband and I were traveling around the West…
Read More1. Rahawa Haile’s “Going It Alone” in Outside Haile recounts her experience through-hiking the Appalachian Trail alone as an African American woman. She explores…
Read More1. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s “The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life” in The New York Times Magazine This piece has rightfully garnered a ton of…
Read More1. Rachel Aviv’s “The Trauma of Facing Deportation” for The New Yorker A deeply disturbing, fascinating account of uppgivenhetssyndrom, or “resignation syndrome,” an illness striking refugee…
Read MoreKaralynn Moran’s “On Rubbernecking” in apt In her lyric essay, “On Rubbernecking,” Karalynn Moran revisits the experience of witnessing multiple trucks destroyed: her own…
Read MoreTyrese L. Coleman “Why I Let Him Touch My Hair” in Brevity I read Tyrese L. Coleman’s short piece a few weeks ago, and…
Read MoreHeather Kirn Lanier’s “How Parenting Became A Full-Time Job, And Why That’s Bad For Women” in The Establishment When I was pregnant for the…
Read MorePauline Campos’s “A Mexican-American in Maine Responds to Governor LePage” in The Fix Earlier this year, Maine’s governor Paul LePage made multiple racist remarks…
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