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talking to teenage girls about teenage boys
"no boy will EVER have more experience with your body than you do" and other potentially necessary reminders
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Rebecca Woolf
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we have arrived with a thud in the Artificial Age
who and what is 'real' anymore and what happens when we can't tell the difference
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Rebecca Woolf
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Reading The Dry Season at the DMV
on expiration dates, celibacy, and turning 44
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Rebecca Woolf
23
blood on our hands
body horror is every woman's genre. but our performative squeamishness, silence and shame is a self-inflicted wound.
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Rebecca Woolf
17
well over the mileage limit
on the malaise of modern expenses, failed negotiations and quitting sex until my lease is up
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Rebecca Woolf
20
On Dying for Sex, living for female horniness and the impossibility of healing a man's pain with a woman's hope
because paradigms aren't going to shift themselves
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Rebecca Woolf
14
it isn't weird unless you make it weird
our inability to acknowledge our children's sexuality is a litmus test for the lack of comfort we feel in our own.
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Rebecca Woolf
20
the braid
the braid
a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.
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