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    Books: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

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    Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye was published in 1988. At the time, I was a huge (and horrified) fan of The Handmaid’s Tale, which was...
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    Books: Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates

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    In her famous 1929 extended essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf urges women to create their own forms of writing—not...
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    Books: Love, Only Better by Paulette Stout

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    In her novel Love, Only Better, Paulette Stout sets out to tell a story that not only entertains, but opens up a conversation about...
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    Books: Girlhood by Melissa Febos: 7 Essays in Remembering

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    The first essay is “Kettle Holes.” Spitting. Puberty. The Titanic: a ship thought to be too strong to sink. A friend boy chases her...
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    Books: The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

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    I first read Jo Ann Beard’s 1999 memoir in essays, The Boys of My Youth, during a particularly vulnerable period. A friend who writes...
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    Books: I Hated This One: An Eclipse Reread

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    I knew this one was bad, but I wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of nausea Eclipse brought me this go-round. I fully had to...
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    The Tree of Life

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    I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.
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    Books: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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    Persepolis is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. It is an emotional, informative, and humorous memoir about what it was like...
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    Hands Down

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    The drive to Colorado took two days. It was April 15, 1987, and I had just come from Fort Rucker, Alabama, the Army’s Aviation...
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    WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN AIRLINE PILOTS?

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    Can I tell you why there aren’t more women flying the friendly skies? It’s because all the women who want to be airline pilots...
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    Deep Cervix Brag

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    As a teen who had an unhealthy obsession with Mermaids, particularly the part where every time Winona Ryder kissed a boy, she thought she...
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    The Tree of Life

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    I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.
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    THIS USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND

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    A viable offer has been made on my childhood home. I’m not falling out of my chair with shock, considering it’s been on the...
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    We Stand on the Backs of Generations of Women: Some Thoughts on My Grandmother

    Cooper Gillespie - 0
    We walk on the backs of the generations of women who came before us, and lately I’ve been thinking about my grandmothers…about the opportunities I have in my life that they weren’t even allowed to dream about.
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    Self-Care and Life Coach Keiyana Arnold on Self-Care as an Act of Protest & Living as Your 100% Authentic Self

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    Keiyana Arnold is a self-care and life coach. It is her mission to help others create happiness in their lives...and ultimately have more good days than bad ones.
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    Marketing Coach Thais Padilla on Never Giving Up While Building the Business of Your Dreams

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    Thais Padilla is a marketing coach who helps female entrepreneurs become wildly in demand and generate consistent income months through proven marketing strategies.
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    Musician/Artist Kelly Fleek on Living Your Truth, Successful Queer & Creative Partnerships, and Kicking Doors Down

    Cooper Gillespie - 0
    Kelly Fleek is a Spider Fern Maven (the Spider Ferns are her band). A Lo Flux babe (Lo Flux Media is her PR company). A storyteller. A Maker of things who is into witchy shizz. She also makes incredible textile sculptures. We discuss successful queer and creative partnerships, creativity, and kicking doors down.
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    Skater/Filmmaker Myriah Marquez on the Beauty of Being Alive and the Importance of Living With Compassion

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    Myriah Marquez is a skateboarder and a filmmaker. She lives with an invisible illness, which impacts her life in a multitude of ways.
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