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love letters, paper trails and other ways of words
on writers as liabilities to each other and ourselves
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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
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when the body says no, how do we respond?
especially when other parts of our body are saying yes
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to Stay or Leave
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when you know better but do it anyway
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in which I attempt the impossibility of articulating the language of my cells
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refuse feedback (when you need to) and it will set you free
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Coming up for Air
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first love is a haunted house
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Baby Had a Fast Car
on teenage freedom and the broken promises of adolescent hope
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Get Free: on Staying, Leaving and What Comes Next
announcing two new virtual writing workshop-communities for women who are considering divorce and recovering their autonomy in the aftermath
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when it comes to sex, women are not a monolith
untangling female desire from monogamous heteronormativity
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
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to the girl buying a single box of tampons at the drug store. sincerely, the woman in front of you buying milk.
a poem, which I eventually get to
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"War and Noise"
for many writers, the problem isn't that we can't find "peace and quiet," it's that we think that is what we must have in order to write. (we don't.)
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this is a love letter to all the mothers in the Children's Hospital ER at 11:11 pm on a Tuesday night
and also everywhere else
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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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