This Frozen Life
As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
...moreAs soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
...more“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
...moreLisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreAre my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
...moreI need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
...moreLindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
...moreDani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
...morePay off the stork to remove your house from its route.
...moreOur storytelling, the sharing of our necessary truths, is needed now more than ever.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreI can’t speak, but I can scream.
...moreThe airless bubble expanding over their yard now included him. He could hardly breathe.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreCan women ever fully escape the restrictions upon them, the risk to their bodies that comes from being born female?
...moreVote Tuesday. Vote for Democrats.
...moreAirong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
...moreShe 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.
...moreOnce upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
...more[A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.
...more[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.
...moreThere’s a lot left unsaid between the women of Red Clocks; not even they know the extent to which they’re all connected.
...moreShe 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.
...moreSharon Harrigan discusses her memoir, Playing with Dynamite, writing through the gaps in memory, and how the book has changed real-life relationships.
...moreMy lover became the Pope. It was the twenty-tens and the Catholic Church wanted to rebrand with Newport cigarettes and Hermes chiseled calves.
...moreAuthor Joyce Carol Oates discusses how the political climate affected the writing of her latest novel, A Book of American Martyrs, how she uses Twitter, and why predictions are a waste of time.
...moreThere is no way to classify a response to pregnancy. It is what it is, which is why people find consolation in naming their phantoms. In this case, the phantom is named Catalpa.
...moreAchy Obejas discusses her new collection, The Tower of the Antilles, what she’s learned from translating works of others, and why we should all read poetry every day.
...moreWhen women do not want a pregnancy, we may not experience the marvel and awe some claim are instant and “natural”—or, if we do, they are overshadowed by fear, and grief.
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