Women We Read This Week
1. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Loneliness of Donald Trump” on Lit Hub It gives me so much hope to see Rebecca Solnit rise to the…
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Women We Read This Week
This might come as a shock, but this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Perhaps you’ve seen things about it in the media. With that in…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Patricia Lockwood’s “Escape From the Convent” in New York Magazine Raves about Lockwood’s work have been all over my Twitter feed for months…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Sarah Smarsh’s “How political nuance could save America” in The Guardian If you have not been reading Sarah Smarsh, start ASAP. Allow me…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Monroe’s “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement” for The New Yorker Years ago, when my husband and I were traveling around the West…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rahawa Haile’s “Going It Alone” in Outside Haile recounts her experience through-hiking the Appalachian Trail alone as an African American woman. She explores…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s “The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life” in The New York Times Magazine This piece has rightfully garnered a ton of…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Aviv’s “The Trauma of Facing Deportation” for The New Yorker A deeply disturbing, fascinating account of uppgivenhetssyndrom, or “resignation syndrome,” an illness striking refugee…
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Women We Read This Week
Karalynn Moran’s “On Rubbernecking” in apt In her lyric essay, “On Rubbernecking,” Karalynn Moran revisits the experience of witnessing multiple trucks destroyed: her own…
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Women We Read This Week
Tyrese L. Coleman “Why I Let Him Touch My Hair” in Brevity I read Tyrese L. Coleman’s short piece a few weeks ago, and…
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Women We Read This Week
Heather Kirn Lanier’s “How Parenting Became A Full-Time Job, And Why That’s Bad For Women” in The Establishment When I was pregnant for the…
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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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