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    Books: Under My Bed and Other Essays by Jody Keisner

    Ashley Espinoza - 0
    After I gave birth to my daughter, as a single mother, I struggled with how to share my home with someone else. I was...
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    Women and the West: Willa Cather’s Feminist Perspective of the Wild Countryside

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    It all started with a conversation over omelets in a booth at the Breakfast House. I was in my senior year of high school,...
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    Endorphins Make You Happy 

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    Do you remember the scene in the movie Legally Blonde where Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is defending her client convicted of murder? You know...
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    Books: Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown

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    A poet by trade, Molly McCully Brown now turns her hand to memoir, using a series of essays to trace the year she spent...
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    Books: Final Girls with the Final Word

    Katie Gilligan - 0
      When we think of slashers, obviously Freddy, Michael, and Jason quickly come to mind, but beyond the masks and machetes, there is always a...
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    Books: Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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    Jen Winston’s debut essay collection, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, begins with a scene in which she is gazing at...
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    THIS USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND

    Margaret Edwartowski - 0
    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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    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

    Ashley Corinne - 0
    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?

    Andrea Eldridge - 0
    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

    Lisa Gopman - 0
    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

    L. A. Hunt - 0
    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

    Margaret Edwartowski - 0
    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

    Cooper Gillespie - 0
    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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