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
Esmé Weijun Wang’s “Fashioning Normal” in Catapult This is a beautifully written, painfully self-aware essay about the ways we try to mask our true…
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Women We Read This Week
Derecka Purnell’s “A New Civil Rights Movement is Already Growing at the Grass Roots” in The New York Times As a country we like…
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Accidents
I break the surface and sink again. I kick upwards, furiously, but I do not move. I do not move. My mind is blank and calm.
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Women We Read This Week
Roxane Gay’s “The Price of Black Ambition” in VQR Roxane Gay is having a moment. Her moment, to be exact. With two books—the novel…
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The Storm and the Beast
The morning before the typhoon hit, I sat down for a Skype date with my parents: my morning coffee and their evening wine…
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Women We Read This Week
This has been a seriously amazing week for women’s writing on the web, so we’ve got a healthy list of links for you today….
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