Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy
Essays & Criticism
Posted inNonfiction
An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence
As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error
Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway
A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax
When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
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Reading Lessons
You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Unapologetic Women
This (Wo)Man’s Work
When men devalue the labor of women like Andrea Arnold and overvalue the work of even problematic men, it’s a triple whammy that diminishes the individual woman, women in general, and the overall quality of culture.
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When to Throw a Goodbye Party
Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.
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The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women
How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Whole 60
The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.