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Posted inEditor's Pick

Slow Death and Labored Breath: Listening To, Listening Through Inheritance

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 31, 2021October 19, 2022

“Today, the work done by Parrish in the nineteen-twenties and Gates in the nineteen-nineties forms the bedrock for books, documentaries, and a renewed reparations push that, a century after the massacre, is experiencing a groundswell of support.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 25, 2021October 19, 2022

“But if Guerrera was part of a movement of journalists chronicling the murders of women, she went one step further. She started trying to solve them, too.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”

Posted inNonfiction

Binders Full of Men

by Jennifer Berney February 9, 2021October 18, 2022

In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The Geography Closest In

by Longreads January 26, 2021October 19, 2022

In her new book, Miranda Ward explores the unique place of almost-motherhood — an uncertain landscape characterized by waiting, wanting, hoping, and not-knowing.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Writing

Loving Molly, and Mourning Her: A Husband’s Extraordinary Essay

by Seyward Darby December 11, 2020October 19, 2022

Blake Butler writes movingly about his late wife, poet Molly Brodak.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Wonder Women

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Female Founders Under Fire

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

“Are women in the startup world being unfairly targeted?”

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Transforming Craft Into An Act of Protest’: Embroidery In Response to Femicide in Mexico

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 23, 2020October 19, 2022

An embroidery collective in Mexico sews the stories of slain women.

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