the braid

the braid is three years old today and the bench sessions is officially live

a private stay-or-leave community for women contemplating divorce is now open. and a thank you for supporting the braid for three years.

Nov 10 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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October 2025

creative women are becoming increasingly dangerous to men who have historically gotten away with being shitty

on Lily Allen, David Harbour, and "Vogue World" as the perfect distraction for Hollywood's blatant muzzling of women's voices and our stories.

Oct 29 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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choosing the ache for more over the acceptance of less

on love, limerence and no longer martyring oneself on the altar of convention

Oct 23 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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Mindy Walder

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motherhood isn't the problem, patriarchy is.

why conservatism will always win if progressive women insist on throwing the babies out with the bathwater

Oct 16 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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"an insecure man will punish you for loving him"

on Nicole Kidman, the infantilization of boyfriends and marrying men who will grow to hate you for being out of their league

Oct 8 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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Living on the Edge

On Rediscovering Tension and the Potency of Longing

Oct 1 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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September 2025

the dichotomy of attraction

Demanding partner #1 relinquish their autonomy in order to coddle partner #2's insecurities is not “setting boundaries"

Sep 22 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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on the rampant policing of stranger’s feelings on the Internet

no one thinks they’re a bad guy, but it is a problem when everyone thinks that they’re good

Sep 16 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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"prometheus is looking for his forever cream pie"

the ick of getting back on the apps after six months off of them

Sep 4 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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August 2025

The Grey Area

talking to teenage boys about teenage girls

Aug 29 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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Brendan Stephan

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what is consent to a ghost

a critique (and vindication) on my own gaze and an invitation for you to center yours

Aug 25 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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our obsession with aesthetics has made us boring and unsocial. (death to the mood board! long live the house party!)

cultivating community requires a living room, an open door and a pile of dishes in the sink you'll get to later. (and several tangents before I get to…

Aug 19 • 

Rebecca Woolf

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