The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace
What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Thread: Ghosts at the Door
Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
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The Thread: Art Monsters
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.
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The Thread: On Justice
I can’t speak, but I can scream.
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The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told
It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
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The Thread: The Unthought Known
The whole word suddenly fell apart, both as a concept, and as a sound.
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The Thread: Down Girl
Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl.
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The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls
I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.
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The Thread: Fatherless
I create myself, raise myself. I am mine.
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The Thread: Outside the Gaze
This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.
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The Thread: Forged in Fire
To control your story is to own your reality.
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The Thread: Dress Codes
How much of gender and identity is about dressing up as the part?
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The Thread: All in My Head
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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The Thread: Near Miss
I’ve seen them in the post office, or stapled to utility poles, fluttering in the evening breeze.
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The Thread: American Garbage
The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.
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The Thread: The Masked Man
What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.
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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do
Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
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The Thread: Volcanoes
Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?
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The Thread: Mother Me
Enchantment. Lying. Are they really so different?
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The Thread: Actual Bodily Harm
They say justice is blind, and a lady, but it is neither. Justice is a wheel.
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The Thread: Ways of Being Seen
Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
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The Thread: Object Lessons
Sex doesn’t need to be shameful. Objectification should be.
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