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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Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin
In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.
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The Motherhood Mask
By the time I was in my late twenties, taking a pregnancy test when my period was late had become reflexive.
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Women We Read This Week
Monica Hesse’s “The Long Drive to End a Pregnancy” in The Washington Post In a spare, powerful story, Monica Hesse chronicles a woman’s 407-mile…
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Women We Read This Week
Leslie Jamison’s “The Empathy Exams: A Medical Actor Writers Her Own Script” in The Believer In Leslie Jamison’s brilliant (seriously, please go read it…
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The Morning After
Paper gown and stirrups, white walls and a tray of gleaming tools: he held the syringe over me and said, “It’s a special kind of anesthetic…
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Private Ceremonies
I had only a minute while I waited for the doctor to meet my patient. I grabbed a plastic cup and a pregnancy test from the lab and slipped into the bathroom.
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