“In Texas—Georgia—in Alabama—all over this vast canvas of fear that we call America, women will die. They won’t have time to run away. They will be great-Aunts only in name, and in death. And their deaths will disappear into a language made and remade by men to cover their shitty sins.”
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A Personal History of the C-Section
“When my daughter’s delivery went off the script I had imagined, it made me wonder about what we ask from our birth stories.”
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Slow Death and Labored Breath: Listening To, Listening Through Inheritance
“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”
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The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre
“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.”
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Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective
“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.”
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Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her
“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”
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Binders Full of Men
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
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
Blake Butler writes movingly about his late wife, poet Molly Brodak.