Women We Read This Week
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 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
Jessica Pishko’s “Unemployment Is a Full-Time Job” in Takepart Journalist Jessica Pishko does an amazing job at painting humanizing portraits of welfare recipients and…
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Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “High Desert Suicide: Was a Prison Guard Hazed to Death?” in Rolling Stone In this deeply reported narrative, Pishko investigates the events…
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Women We Read This Week
Anna Merlan’s “Ghost Child: The Strange, Misunderstood World of Delusional Pregnancy” on Jezebel For some reason I started reading this just before I went…
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Women We Read This Week
Lizzy Goodman’s “Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star” in The New York Times Magazine On the surface, this is a well-done profile of unexpected…
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Vela’s First Nonfiction Contest: Results
Vela’s first Nonfiction Contest received over 500 submissions. We were humbled to read the stories women writers shared with us and impressed by their breadth…
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