Women We Read This Week
Jenna Wortham’s “Black Health Matters” in The New York Times What I love about this article, in which Jenna Wortham explores racism, brutalities and…
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Women We Read This Week
Sharon Harrigan’s “A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time” in the New York Times’ Modern Love column What I…
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Women We Read This Week
Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s…
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S. Isabel Choi’s “Her Prayer” in Ninth Letter It takes a supremely talented writer to build up suspense to an event that the reader…
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Women We Read This Week
Kate Shellnutt’s “Why 30 is the decade friends disappear — and what to do about it” in Vox “It’s crucial that we keep at…
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Margarita Gokun Silver’s “Right on Track” in Aeon I once took a train from Virginia to Louisiana because it seemed like less of a…
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Women We Read This Week
Suki Kim’s “The Reluctant Memoirist” in The New Republic Where is the line between first-person investigative journalism and memoir and who gets to decide?…
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Women We Read This Week
Amanda Giracca’s “Into the Field ” in Orion Magazine By combining vivid and highly detailed scenes from her experience in field biology classes with…
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Women We Read This Week
Mary Heather Noble’s “Things I (Shouldn’t) Have to Tell My Daughter” in The Fem The lyric essay is a form that lends itself to…
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Women We Read This Week
Soniah Kamal’s “The Reluctant Writer” in Catapult At 14, Sonia Kamal, like many girls her age, was inspired by a woman on television and…
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Women We Read This Week
Zehra Rehman’s “Lingering: How One Indigenous Reserve is Coping With Canada’s Suicide Crisis” in Buzzfeed In “Lingering,” Zehra Rehman tackles the question, “Why Are…
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Women We Read This Week
I’ve always loved Helen Gurley Brown for her essential role in dismantling stereotypes about women’s sexuality: that women are fragile or frigid or generally joyless about sex.
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