By Julia Connolly When I was a 19-year-old college student, I briefly dated a guy who was a bartender in a strip club. And by “dated,” I mean that I’d sit at […]
Strip Club Girl
Wearing Mom
by Gianna Russo There is no way she would miss it. Nothing would keep my mother away from the wedding of her first grandchild—not even her death nearly five years earlier. […]
Anything Helps, God Bless
by Gianna Russo Next time, you’ll notice them in their Sunday clothes, the orange-yellow vests that once a week declare to the church-goers waiting at the red light on Hillsborough Avenue they […]
25 Reasons We Love Gloria Steinem
by Lindsey O’Brien and Andrea Ananighian at Ms. Magazine 1. She co-founded Ms. magazine 2. She said, “A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.” 3. She used her skill has […]
Be True to Your Sisters
Be True to Your Sisters by Suzannah Gilman When my daughter was four and in pre-k she had an experience with female classmates being mean to each other and to her. At […]
Happy Birthday to The Face of Feminism, Gloria Steinem
Reposted from The New York Times. This is What 80 Looks Like by Gail Collins Very few people have aged as publicly. It’s been four decades since she told a reporter, “This […]
Slut-Shamed in Her Wedding Dress
Reblogged from xoJane.com. It Happened to Me: I Was Slut Shamed in My Wedding Dress by Nina Talley “You know those moments that you really wish you had your wits about you? […]
“Charlotte Managed” — Praise for Terry Godbey’s “Hold Still.”
by Martin Achatz, an editor at Passages North, “Wilbur admired the way Charlotte managed… “Charlotte the spider is a survivor. She doesn’t depend on Lurvy to bring her food. She doesn’t scrounge through […]
Fast Gas
by Dorianne Laux -For Richard Before the days of self service, When you never had to pump your own gas, I was the one who did it for you, the girl who […]
What Will I Tell His Daughter
by Meg Day When they removed the yellow tape from the doorway, our neckless birds still sat, unfolding, on the tabletop, his stack of paper—foils & florals & one tartan velum—fanning out […]
