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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Taylor Mulitz’s Social Media Mentors

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • August 16, 2018
I’ve always had a voyeuristic relationship with social media.
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Faith and Identity: Fireworks in the Graveyard by Joy Ladin

  • Siham Karami
  • April 27, 2018
To “ameliorate” the desire for death or the sense of self-annihilation, Ladin finds in religion a way of reconciliation, not only within herself, but also with her community and society at large.
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A Good Mom, a Progressive Mom, a Cool Mom

  • Guia Cortassa
  • August 23, 2016
At Catapult, Rachel Klein shares her experience as a mother of a transitioning child: I was worried, like most people are at their core, about myself. I was not being…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Skinning the Wildcat

  • Ian Belknap
  • August 14, 2016
My son was not born my son. My son was born my daughter.
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Written in Ink

  • Katie O'Brien
  • August 12, 2016
In a powerful essay at The Establishment, Evelyn Deshane discusses rejecting the medical narrative around transitioning, and how tattoos allowed them to reclaim their own body: When the physicality of my…
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Regarding the Boy

  • Alexander Pines
  • April 18, 2016
What happens to a place when it can no longer define itself by its history, when it tears everything down? What is the rust belt without the plants, the factories? Who is the boy without his sister?
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