For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
At Home on Carmine Street
Abigail Rasminsky thought she’d survived a robbery unscathed. Then she realized it was following her everywhere.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
The Hospital Where
When accompanying his father to the emergency room, a writer reflects on how he developed his talent — and why that’s a story he can never tell his father.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Face of Mass Deportation
At Guernica, journalist J. Malcolm Garcia profiles forty-eight-year-old Sixto Paz, a roofer with a family and no criminal record who moved into a church to avoid deportation.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Impractical Urges
An essay excerpted from Robin Romm’s forthcoming anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition in which The Twelve Tribes of Hattie novelist Ayana Mathis considers the writing ambitions she often hasn’t felt entitled to–even after Oprah Winfrey chose her book as an Oprah 2.0 pick.
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Mother Science
Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
A Fat Body and a Fat Mind: On Taking Up Space, Unapologetically
Carmen Maria Machado’s stunning essay in Guernica on the power of women who take up space is an important read for people of any size.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Biological Clocks and Biological Gender: Trans Women and the Dream of Pregnancy
Belle Boggs writes in Guernica, exploring what the possibility of uterine transplants — no matter how remote or unaccessible the science is — means for trans women.
