
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…
Read MoreMary 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…
Read MoreSoniah Kamal’s “The Reluctant Writer” in Catapult At 14, Sonia Kamal, like many girls her age, was inspired by a woman on television and…
Read MoreZehra 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…
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreSarah 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,…
Read MorePalmer’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.
Read MoreMegan 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…
Read MoreAbby 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…
Read MoreCatapult’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…
Read MoreJessica Pishko’s “It Took Being in an Abusive Relationship to Make Me Understand the Importance of Access to Abortion” in Elle Jessica Pishko adds…
Read MoreDawn 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…
Read MoreIngrid 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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