Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.
Story
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The Camouflage Artist: Two World Wars, Two Loves, and One Great Deception
In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
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A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)
Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
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Old In Art School
At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.
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Trying to Kill the Want
I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
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The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing With Your Father
It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
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The Cold War and its Fallout
A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
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Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s
In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
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Sex Workers vs. The Internet
Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.