Someone Called Mother By Max and Jill Talbot Feature Their mothers were secrets, right up until their deaths.
Who You Were Is Who You Are Is Who You Will Be By Michelle Weber Highlight Some of the trappings might change, but you at 27 is fundamentally you at 37 is you at 47. La plus ça change!
Preparing for a Post-Roe America By Laura Barcella Feature Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.
We’ve All Been Unreliable Witnesses to Lorena By Michelle Weber Highlight “I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape.”
Labor Pains: A Reading List By Sara Benincasa Reading List No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.
Elegy in Times Square By Lily Burana Feature A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
There Was Nothing We Could Have Done, Because We’re Racist and You’re Black By Michelle Weber Highlight “The prevalent perception of black women as unruly bodies and incompetent caretakers overrules even the most dominant stereotype about us—namely, that we are superhuman.”
The Silence of Women By Longreads Feature Women who spoke too angrily or too publicly were punished in cruel and unusual ways.
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man By Catherine Cusick Highlight Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists By Longreads Feature Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
Swipe White By Jennifer Chong Schneider Feature Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
They Wanted Her Body By Rafia Zakaria Feature Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.
As Beauty Does By Chaya Bhuvaneswar Feature Chaya Bhuvaneswar contemplates the powerful evolution of a woman’s beauty over time.
Thank You for Not Being Afraid, Pat Maginnis By Michelle Weber Highlight Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.
Queens of Infamy: Zenobia By Anne Thériault Feature In third-century Syria, a widowed monarch dared to be wildly ambitious — and almost brought the Roman Empire to its knees.
‘Emerging’ as a Writer — After 40 By Jenny Bhatt Feature Jenny Bhatt recalls the rites of passage that led to her shift in identity from corporate executive to woman writer of color.
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: A Reading List About Witches By Sara Benincasa Reading List Witchcraft: it’s spirituality, it’s a philosophy, it’s a lot more than flowy black dresses and cursing your exes.
The Wrong Pair By Lisa W. Rosenberg Feature After decades of shame, discrimination in the ballet world, and some serious back pain, Lisa W. Rosenberg concludes it’s time to down-size her double-E knockers.
Re: Hate Mail By Amy Kurzweil Feature After receiving a string of menacing emails, Amy Kurzweil wonders: Can she safely extend a writer’s empathy to men who harass her on the internet?
Theater of Forgiveness By Hafizah Geter Feature Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror By michellemeyrink Feature Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.
When a Missing Nickel Makes All the Difference By Krista Stevens Highlight “Yet money was a lie—pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor, and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”
Lacy M. Johnson on Rejecting the Need to Be Liked By Krista Stevens Highlight “As a woman, I have been raised to be nurturing, to care for others feelings’ and wellbeing often at the expense of my own.”
A Woman Becomes a Nightingale By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
The Denial Diaries: On #MeToo Men With No Self-Awareness By michellemeyrink Feature In a good story, a character suffers, changes, and grows. In real life, women suffer while men double down on their delusions of virtue.
Queens of Infamy: The Reign of Catherine de’ Medici By Anne Thériault Feature When your husband and male heirs are too useless or too dead to rule, you have to take matters into your own poison-gloved hands.
A Woman, Tree or Not By Terese Marie Mailhot Feature Terese Marie Mailhot questions the value of Native coming of age ceremonies she missed out on.
