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I Am Not An Aspirational Character
Preliminary thoughts on the self-helpization of memoir
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Touched Out Tour Dates!
And other ways to come out!
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Parenting in Barbie Land
A take on the film for weird dark crazy moms
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Parenting in Barbie Land
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The Way We Talk About Domestic Inequality is Broken
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"Sexually, I was always a caretaker first"
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What Abortion Bans and Childcare Shortages Have in Common
Katherine Goldstein on the erosion of maternal choice
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The Way We Talk About Domestic Inequality is Broken
It's a public issue, not a personal one
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"I really wanted to resist expectations of what a memoir looks like"
A conversation with Jane Wong, author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
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A String of Documentaries Are Reckoning with Hollywood Misogyny
Are they telling a new story?
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"I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy"
Talking with Kelly McMasters, author of The Leaving Season, about the male gaze, the divorce memoir, and the anxiety of writing about other people
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This is How Mother's Day Ends in America
With fear
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Mother's Day Sucks
A post for moms
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Mad Woman
Mad Woman
Feminist analysis of politics, pop culture, and literature + other hysterics by Amanda Montei PhD, MFA, author of TOUCHED OUT: MOTHERHOOD, MISOGYNY, CONSENT, AND CONTROL (forthcoming from Beacon Press, September 2023) and other books.
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