Letter to a Dog Walking Service By Diane Mehta Feature Diane Mehta adopted a rescue dog but then questioned her own salvation from the chaos of daily migraines.
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
Decisions, Decisions By Sari Botton Highlight Masha Gessen considers the nature of choice, for immigrants and trans people.
Reclaiming Our Rage By Sari Botton Highlight Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
Ellen Pompeo on Negotiating Her Way to Becoming TV’s Highest Paid Actress By Mike Dang Highlight The ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star gets real about earning money in Hollywood.
We’re Not Done Here By Laurie Penny Feature How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
Moira Donegan is the Anti-Katie Roiphe We Need By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Katie Roiphe’s moment is over.
A Speech and a Sermon By Catherine Cusick Highlight In her speech, Oprah reached out to “every man who chooses to listen.” Fifty years earlier, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked fearful men to speak up.
The Encyclopedia of the Missing By Jeremy Lybarger Feature She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Every Woman Her Own Bodyguard By Longreads Feature Before women got the right to vote, they learned jiu-jitsu and boxing to defend themselves on the streets
How Are There Still Beauty Pageants When Feminists Have Been Protesting Them for 50 Years? By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.
Me Too, Except I Didn’t Stay Silent By Longreads Feature In the places I’ve worked, sexual harassment was identified as something that could destroy an organization. It was a story with consequences.
Hollywood and ‘Disaster Feminism’ By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary The women of Hollywood are seizing this moment.
The High Cost of Becoming a Writer as a Single Mom By Sari Botton Highlight Stephanie Land endured poverty, loneliness, and more to pursue her dream of being a writer.
An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten By A. N. Devers Commentary On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.
‘Cat Person’ and the Young Person By Danielle Tcholakian Highlight Many of us can viscerally remember what it was like to be young and overwhelmed by the power of our youth.
This Is How a Woman Is Erased From Her Job By A. N. Devers Feature After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy By Melissa Chadburn Feature Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
On the Contentious Borders of the American South By Danielle Jackson Highlight Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness.
A (Tempered) Victory for the Silence-Breakers By Sari Botton Highlight Time magazine chooses as its Person of the Year those who’ve spoken up against sexual predators — and as runner-up, a sexual predator.
Women in the Workplace Are Not Out To Get You By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary What do you need to do to have a consensual, romantic work relationship? The same things that make any workplace respectful and considerate.
When to (Not) Have Kids By Sari Botton Commentary At a bleak moment in human history, these essays explore the case for not reproducing.
The Consent of the (Un)governed By Laurie Penny Feature “Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
Being a Teenage Girl is Hard By Danielle Tcholakian Highlight Nobody in their families can understand them, OK?
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism By Danielle Jackson Highlight The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Assertiveness Training By Susan Sheu Feature Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
The Red Zone: A Love Story By Chloe Caldwell Feature A severe form of PMS puts Chloe Caldwell’s new relationship to the test.
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural By Rebecca Schuman Feature On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Bronx Rapper Cardi B Became a Pop Sensation, But Will She Make it Last? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity.
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