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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 WeekJune 25, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekJune 17, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekMay 21, 2016

Women We Read This Week

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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 WeekMay 6, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekApril 30, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekApril 16, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekApril 9, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekApril 2, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekMarch 26, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekMarch 18, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekMarch 11, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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 WeekFebruary 26, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

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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