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A New Hope
on pain, power and diverging from patriarchy
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Rebecca Woolf
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How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
my relationship with my late husband is always going to be complicated which is why I'll never stop celebrating him and everything else that is also…
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on celibacy, solo sex and quitting dating because, "why bother."
is dating even worth it? let's discuss.
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June 2024

it's okay if you're a little bit jealous that all of your friends are on adventures right now
but also... here's a recipe for Vacation eggs.
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for the mothers who are fathers, too.
because today is also yours
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on burning the dinner... again
or how burning the dinner is never about burning the dinner. and also, Run Lola Run.
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on attending the marriage of my friend to herself and the pride and privilege of bearing witness to the awakening of women
what does it look like to create a community of unconditional safety for women? it starts by shamelessly taking up space for yourself
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May 2024

"I am a collection of dismantled almosts"
on marriage of mother to child, the let-go and other thoughts; one year later
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if we all went back to another time I will love you over
portraits of four different selves from four different audiences in four different decades (Belle and Sebastian, 1999-2024)
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"I am a beautiful thing."
or how I learned to love my forty-something body by posting nudes on the internet
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laura hoenack
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April 2024

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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