Women We Read This Week
Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s…
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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
Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” in Harper’s Solnit’s essay opens, as so many do, with questions—but this one in a literal, external…
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Women We Read This Week
Amanda Filipacchi’s “How to Pose Like a Man” in The New York Times Much has been said about how women’s writing is packaged and…
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Women We Read This Week
Darcey Steinke’s “Frankenstein’s Mother” in Granta This moving essay about the writer’s relationship with her “monster” mom weaves family history with the story…
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Women We Read This Week
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” in The Rumpus It’s difficult to summarize Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” not only because it is so wide-spanning, but…
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Women We Read This Week
Ruth Fowler’s “The Loneliest and Saddest Kind” on Guernica It was fitting that I should find Ruth Fowler‘s essay this week, as I was…
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Women We Read This Week
Eva Holland’s “Wilderness Women” on SB Nation How could we begin the first WWRTW of the year without repping our own Eva Holland? Especially…
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Women We Read This Week
Ana Defillo’s “A Bustle.com Writer Responds to Its Critics” in Flavorwire While there’s certainly a lot of bandwagon riff-raff that comes along with the…
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Women We Read this Week
It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Lauren Westerfield’s “Twenty-Seven” in The Rumpus This essay tackles a…
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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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