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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Courtney Balestier’s Five Multigenerational Cultural Narratives
My work explores the intersection of place and identity, so I am drawn to stories that create atmospheres both physical and cultural—that investigate the embedded, omnipotent role that our collective histories, and the places where they’ve unfolded, play in our lives.
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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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SuperBabies Don’t Cry
When I was pregnant, I tried to make a SuperBaby. I did not realize I was doing this. I believed I’d long ago shed the theory that a body could be made perfect. But looking back, my goal was clear.
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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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Message from Your Inmate
think about you waking up. It gets light here early now, but I suspect it’s still dark when you rise. I don’t know if…
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Off Assignment Presents Letter to a Stranger: Karachi, Pakistan
Letter to a Stranger is the response to a simple question: “Who haunts you?” This essay was originally featured in Off Assignment. was nine…
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People Mountain, People Sea
ne woman wanted out, but no one was sure which way was out. Someone was trying to direct people: the stage is that way,…
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A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
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The Worse That Threatens
made no move to turn on the oven or the space heater to warm our apartment. This was part of my morning custom, but…
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Cecca Ochoa’s Five Experimental Feminists
I love this challenge: to produce an authentic storytelling experience in an unprecedented way.
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Metal and Shrine: A Becoming
SAN FRANCISCO Orange, she says. I am standing next to a punch bowl talking to my husband’s boss. We have told too many people…
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