the braid

god is a woman in her full power

on Florence Welch, E Jean Carroll and my daughters

Jun 7 • Rebecca Woolf

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May 2026

revisiting one milestone during another

twenty-one years on the mothership

May 23 • Rebecca Woolf

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support your local women artist(s)

a thank you note and a favor

May 19 • Rebecca Woolf

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What's Wrong? with Rebecca Woolf

A recording from Rebecca Woolf and Richard Rushfield's live video

May 12 • Rebecca Woolf and Richard Rushfield

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37:11

surgical enhancements may be a choice but so is choosing to ignore their implications

on "you do you, girl" feminism, collective acquiescence to patriarchal beauty standards and the refusal to acknowledge the ramifications Botox has on…

May 12 • Rebecca Woolf

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the most dangerous thing I was never good at

a guest post by author Danielle K Hart

May 4 • Rebecca Woolf

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April 2026

"pics or it didn't happen" and the cultural refusal to believe a woman's truth without "proof"

(if a woman cannot prove she was felled in a forest, do her screams make a sound?)

Apr 23 • Rebecca Woolf

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we should all know more about each other

on public shaming, storytelling, and the secret lives of women who were once girls

Apr 8 • Rebecca Woolf

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March 2026

Why Heated Rivalry Made Me Say "Fuck Aristotle"

a guest essay by Heated Rivalry's #1 fan, the iconic Chelsea Gilmore.

Mar 26 • Chelsea Gilmore

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10

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never date your celebrity crush (or any man)

on cringing in the aftermath of a parasocial delusion

Mar 20 • Rebecca Woolf

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we wrapped her body in flowers and rose-twisted knots. there was poetry and singing. a minivan was a hearse.

and for her final gift, the lesson that death can and should be beautiful. With gratitude to Dot, for tearing her spirit into little bits of bread and…

Mar 9 • Rebecca Woolf

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February 2026

"you don't ever let go of the thread" 1/2

on the life, death and legacy of my great aunt and matriarch: Dot Fisher-Smith

Feb 28 • Rebecca Woolf

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