Lorelei Lee reflects on her career in sex work and pornography, the gradations of consent in the industry, and the ways in which radical feminists and the religious right fight to keep sex work criminalized.
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The Wing Has $118 Million in Funding, Superfans Like Meryl Streep, and Plenty of Skeptics. It’s Just Getting Started.
A profile of Audrey Gelman and The Wing, the very Instagram-able, growing co-working brand she co-founded, as it gears up for new expansion, and faces some growing pains.
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Mysteries of Menopause
In this personal essay, Lesley Hazleton not only makes peace with menopause, she sings its praises as a source of liberation from “want,” aka sexual desire.
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The Crane Wife
Days after calling off her wedding, a writer travels to Texas to study the endangered whooping crane, and learns about the nature of need.
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The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women
How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do
A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
First Contact
Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
The View From 5-Foot-3 (and a Half)
Maybe we can’t transcend height, but can we transcend the internalized misogyny that causes us to limit ourselves and judge other women?
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Game of Crones
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
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A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story
Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.