Raised in a school bus by itinerant hippie parents, with one foot in Mexico and one in the US, the singer blossomed into her true multicultural self in bilingual Montreal.
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Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie
Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
The Occupation of a Woman Writer
Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Burdens We Carry
Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Heartbreaker
Beatrix M. Rooney discovers a tragic secret that may explain her brother’s descent into cruelty and violence.
Posted inNonfiction
Losing My Religion at Christian Camp
Katy Hershberger recalls the way her decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned her views of faith and girlhood.
Posted inNonfiction
How Do You Move Past a Dad?
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway
A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Commentary, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Pot Luck
Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy
