Unhappiness Cloak: An excerpt from “Weird in a World That’s Not,” by Jennifer Romolini.
Unapologetic Women
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Dorothy Allison on How America Devalues Those Who are ‘Other’
Dorothy Allison on how American culture “inherently devalues the poor, the working class, the darks, the queer, the other.”
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Protect that Underwear Zone: Abstinence Only Sex Education
“When my state passed one of the most rigid abstinence-only sex education laws in the nation, I went back to school.”
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When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Isn’t Fiction
Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.
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The Diagnosis and Surgery I Had to Fight For
A series of doctors made it harder for me to learn about my severe uterine condition, and receive the hysterectomy I needed for it.
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The Revolution Will Be Handmade!
Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.
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“That sort of thing doesn’t happen in America.”
Tasneem Raja recalls her own female genital mutilation, which took “place in the bedroom of a family acquaintance in New Jersey in the late ’80s.”
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On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
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On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Acting With Agency: The Power and Possibility of Heroic Women
At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.