Here, everyone hurries but no one arrives, everyone shows up but no one gets in, everyone’s a member but no one belongs.
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Why I Wanted To Finish My Father’s Life’s Work
Karen Brown recalls the pain and joy of fulfilling a deathbed promise.
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Running Dysmorphic
On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.
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Checking in on the Masculinity Crisis
If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.
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In Praise of Del Amitri’s Album Waking Hours
Some albums make it hard to separate the music from the experience of listening to it.
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Bully for You
Women with power have the capacity to silence women with less — and they wield it. Why can’t they see that?
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A Beautiful, Rugged Place: Erosion of the Body
The life-long writer, teacher, and activist believed she could save a piece of land or a species, but after her brother took his life, she questioned her optimism and how to grieve for him and the planet.
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The Backcountry Prescription Experiment
Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.
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Why Mr. Bauer Didn’t Like Me
As a child, Blaise Allysen Kearsley tried, in vain, to win over a white friend’s father.
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‘To Be Well’: An Unmothered Woman’s Search for Real Love
After years of strife with her mother, Vanessa Mártir finds unconditional love in a new, tender relationship.