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Quitting the Adjunct Hustle
This is one of those leaving the academy essays— sort of
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Twin Flames Gone Wild
When marriage & gender essentialism become a tool for spiritual ascension, love has not won
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"Building the skills to pierce through the noise is the key to hearing our own voices"
A conversation with Jessica Elefante, author of Raising Hell, Living Well
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Do I Have Time for This?
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From Bad Girl to Bad Mother
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SOMETIMES WOMEN WEAR MAKEUP
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"I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy"
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Who else is your mother?
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Do I Have Time for This?
Meditations on wellness time, domestic time, leisure time, and time well spent
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From Bad Girl to Bad Mother
What Britney Spears's new memoir 'The Woman in Me' tells us about the challenges of feminine self-actualization
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Touched Out is 2 months old
She's holding her head a little more steady, and so am I
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What it means to survive
On addiction, witnessing, naming what would could have been, and saving ourselves
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Who else is your mother?
Lecture notes from my Write or Die class on writing motherhood and sexuality
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Newsletter as Siren Song
On being an obstacle in the hero's journey
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The Golden Bachelor Changes Nothing
The show traffics in a vague politics of anti-ageism. But where are all the crones?
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Mad Woman
Mad Woman
Feminist analysis of books and culture + other hysterics by Amanda Montei, author of TOUCHED OUT and other stuff.
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