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Vela is a magazine of nonfiction written by women. Vela has been tackling the byline gender gap since 2011.

Women We Read This WeekOctober 14, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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Karalynn Moran’s “On Rubbernecking” in apt In her lyric essay, “On Rubbernecking,” Karalynn Moran revisits the experience of witnessing multiple trucks destroyed: her own…

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Women We Read This WeekOctober 8, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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Tyrese L. Coleman “Why I Let Him Touch My Hair” in Brevity I read Tyrese L. Coleman’s short piece a few weeks ago, and…

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Women We Read This WeekOctober 1, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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Heather 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…

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Women We Read This WeekSeptember 23, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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Pauline 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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Women We Read This WeekSeptember 9, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekAugust 26, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekAugust 20, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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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Women We Read This WeekAugust 14, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekAugust 5, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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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Women We Read This WeekJuly 23, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekJuly 9, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekJuly 1, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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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