Women We Read This Week
Pauline Campos’s “A Mexican-American in Maine Responds to Governor LePage” in The Fix Earlier this year, Maine’s governor Paul LePage made multiple racist remarks…
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Women We Read This Week
S. Isabel Choi’s “Her Prayer” in Ninth Letter It takes a supremely talented writer to build up suspense to an event that the reader…
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Women We Read This Week
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 Week
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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Tough Odds, Lady Bird
I first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.
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Women We Read This Week
Laurie Penny’s “Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged” in the New Statesman Laurie Penny is excellent here on the…
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Women We Read This Week
Abigail Rasminsky’s “I’m Pregnant. So Why Can’t I Tell You?” in Medium When Abigail Rasminsky got pregnant she told only family and close friends….
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