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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax

by Lisa A. Phillips July 22, 2019October 19, 2022

When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Gift Economy

by Joanne Solomon January 18, 2019October 19, 2022

In the desert at Burning Man, Joanne Solomon dissects the implicit transaction that defines her cross-cultural love affair.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Neanderthal

by Jen Gilman Porat December 7, 2018October 19, 2022

Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Falling for My Booty Call

by Sarah Kasbeer November 12, 2018October 25, 2022

Sarah Kasbeer reflects on a history of hookups — and why they left her cold.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets

by Sari Botton September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing our Money Secrets

by Vanessa Golenia September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.

Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Welcome to the Jungle

by michelleweber July 16, 2018October 19, 2022

As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.

graffiti reading "the feminists are taking over!"
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Can the Political Override the Personal?

by michelleweber June 28, 2018October 19, 2022

“Harmful to Minors” author Judith Levine mines her past contradictions to sketch out the challenge of a being a young woman simultaneously burgeoning into her feminist and her sexual selves.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)

by Sari Botton June 20, 2018October 19, 2022

An illustrated personal essay in which New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak

by Minda Honey February 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.

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