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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Women We Read This Week
Sarah Viren’s “A Moment’s Pause” in TriQuarterly This five minute video essay begins with Viren narrating the story of her and her partner, Marta,…
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Women We Read This Week
Palmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.
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Women We Read This Week
Megan Stephan’s “Portable and Infinitely Useful” on Public Books I thoroughly enjoyed and whole-heartedly related to this fabulous essay on the significance of books…
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Women We Read This Week
Abby Rabinowitz’s “The Surrogacy Cycle” in Virginia Quarterly Review One of my areas of expertise in my own writing is reproductive ethics—IVF, surrogacy, gamete…
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Women We Read This Week
Catapult’s Adopted Essay Series This week, I’m highlighting two essays from the recent Catapult series on adoption, which was expertly collected and edited by…
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Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “It Took Being in an Abusive Relationship to Make Me Understand the Importance of Access to Abortion” in Elle Jessica Pishko adds…
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Women We Read This Week
Dawn Lundy Martin’s “Weary Oracle” in Harper’s Days after I read Dawn Lundy Martin’s “Weary Oracle,” I still found its terse images prying into…
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Women We Read This Week
Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s “All Good Science Fiction Begins This Way” in The Los Angeles Review of Books In a beautiful, lyrical essay, Contreras explains…
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