Brianna Avenia-Tapper is a writer and Profiles Editor at Literary Mama. Her work is published or forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, Pigeon Pages, Chicago Review of Books, and Riverteeth. She is currently revising her memoir Carrying Heavy Things: Babies, Backpacks, and Bolsheviks. You can find her on twitter @AveniaTapper.
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and…
It’s long past time to explode some myths about Indigenous Peoples, whites and Thanksgiving. For many of us in the US, Thanksgiving has become a day to reunite with friends…
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“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal…
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It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without…
We should all implant these terrific girls in our brains. Reading excellent kid’s books as an adult reveals the world to us in new ways, reminds us of childhood and…
It’s hard to escape news about water these days. Drought on the West Coast, hurricane season raging on the East Coast, and NASA found water on Mars. No matter where…