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When is it not my business? And when does it become my business?
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Reading Women and Other Monsters is like realizing the pattern on the wall you’ve seen for years is really a door.
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And why it's a feminist act to do so
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After a few weeks, I got used to seeing the Pride flag on my car. Pretty soon, I felt happy seeing it there. It had been a small gesture, but it felt…
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Why is it so uncomfortable to point out Whiteness?
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Give yourself permission to put the great losses of your life into words — “Writing about truly painful subjects like death, illness, divorce, war …
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Nobody is pro-abortion, right? Except lately I realized maybe I am. Why clarifying my thinking feels scary but so friggin' good.
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As a kid, I craved certainty — a trait that was reinforced by my religious upbringing
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A couple years after 9/11, a new family moved in next door to us. I remember thinking it would be nice to not be the newest family on our street…
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The fall of Roe v. Wade hit me even harder than I was expecting, with so many feelings, and in such a wide variety and magnitude it was hard to function…
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How to get out of a hole
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Do you consider acting heroic? What about singing? Playing guitar? Writing poems?
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