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Promises

  • Whitney Lee
  • May 22, 2018
[A]fter Jonah died, I quit making promises to my children because I break them. They forgive me. But I fail to offer that grace to myself. So, I don’t make promises.
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How To, in Short

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 20, 2018
"A collection of brief books by Brandon Hicks."
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Dead Name

  • Patricia Parkinson
  • May 8, 2018
In the Parenting Transgender Children support groups I belong to on Facebook, we refer to our previous-gendered child’s birth name as Dead Name.
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On Birds, Cats, and Children

  • Kyoko Mori
  • May 3, 2018
My devotion to the cats was not an imitation of human motherhood. To confuse the two, I thought, was an insult to both.
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Body Fluids: An Exploration of Motherhood

  • Kris Bigalk
  • May 1, 2018
I think fresh semen smells like aspirin, which is made from a mold that grows on birch trees, which of course are phallic.
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Mothering outside the Margins: Celebrating Messy Motherhood

  • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
  • May 1, 2018
This May, The Rumpus celebrates and salutes messy, inclusive, complicated tales of mothering.
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Paying It Forward: Meaghan O’Connell’s And Now We Have Everything

  • Carla Bruce-Eddings
  • April 11, 2018
[O'Connell's] baby, once born, is not the answer to any question, but rather the genesis of a thousand new ones.
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Touch Me

  • Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes
  • April 9, 2018
Some people say that the humidity in Pennsylvania makes them feel suffocated. That night, and even now, it makes me feel loved.
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Poetry Is a Manifestation of a Life: Talking with Marvin Bell

  • Emily Sernaker
  • March 23, 2018
Poet Marvin Bell discusses his now-famous love poem, "To Dorothy," and the woman who inspired it.
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The Family Novel

  • Kevin Chong
  • February 27, 2018
What you cannot put into words cannot become a lie.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools

  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
  • February 26, 2018
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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Headless & Spineless

  • Brandon Hicks
  • February 25, 2018
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