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. . . I desperately, beyond reason, wanted an intact body for burial. I wanted it viscerally, animally, the way your body wakes up in the night looking for a newborn, the way you feel a physical connection to your children even when you cannot see them, the way you want something when everything else has been taken from you. It is the same reason I buried him; I wanted to know where he had gone from me and how.
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Mentally replay every worst memory of your childhood until pregnancy is scared away. Works every time.
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If Roe v. Wade were overturned, twenty-four states could immediately prohibit abortion.
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“Stories hurt, stories heal, stories save our lives.”
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Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
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As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
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“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
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Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
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All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
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I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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Pay off the stork to remove your house from its route.
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Our storytelling, the sharing of our necessary truths, is needed now more than ever.
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Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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I can’t speak, but I can scream.
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The airless bubble expanding over their yard now included him. He could hardly breathe.
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Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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Can women ever fully escape the restrictions upon them, the risk to their bodies that comes from being born female?
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Vote Tuesday. Vote for Democrats.
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Airong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
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She didn’t want anything to change. She understood it would be easier if she loved the child. But she did not want to love it.
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Once upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
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[A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.
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[S]quint at the story one way and you see a woman’s life hollowed out by the very privilege that allows her to coast; look at it from another angle and you see a regular person living a multi-faceted, flawed life.
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There’s a lot left unsaid between the women of Red Clocks; not even they know the extent to which they’re all connected.
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She said something to me, then, that has been a great comfort. “You had a choice,” she said, “but you did not have free will.” A choice that was no choice at all.
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Sharon Harrigan discusses her memoir, Playing with Dynamite, writing through the gaps in memory, and how the book has changed real-life relationships.
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