In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.
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The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem
Kolhatkar walks us through several egregious allegations of abuse and discrimination suffered by women at tech companies like Tesla, SoFi, and Google. The problems are pervasive and are surfacing as more women come forward; class-action gender-discrimination suits are pending against companies such as Twitter, Microsoft, and Uber.
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Why Industrial Laundry Is Dirtier Than You Can Imagine
When industrial laundry workers weren’t touching human feces, they had to deal with third-world working conditions and sexual harassment.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Boy With the Coin-Filled Cellophane Cigarette Wrapper, and Me
Meeting an apparently less fortunate child in her daughter’s kindergarten class transports Amber Leventry back to her own painful youth.
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Men Explain Sylvia Plath’s Suffering to Us
Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.
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Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?
A critical essay raising the question of why many in the literary world cast doubt or treat lightly Sylvia Plath’s allegations of serious abuse at the hand of her husband, poet Ted Hughes — who destroyed many of his wife’s journals from the period before her suicide. Much of her ordeal came to light in […]
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The Super Predators
Domestic abuse by police officers is underreported and less likely to lead to prosecution. It also forces victims to seek help from police departments eager to protect their own.
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The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband
A rickety ’98 Volvo wagon doesn’t look like much, but it provides Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband
The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband
The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.