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    Books: Open by Rachel Krantz

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    Rachel Krantz, whose author headshot makes her a dead ringer for my younger cousin Beth, is a Jewish woman writer in her thirties, as...
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    Books: Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

    Hannah Turner - 0
    Easy Beauty is a memoir of many things: Chloé Cooper Jones’s experience as an academic, a traveler, a mother, a partner, a tennis fan,...
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    Books: Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide

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    Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide is a full-color manga based on the true story of Parisian Emmanuelle “Emma” Maisonneuve—a foodie who...
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    Books: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub

    Melissa Greenwood - 0
    If a late-twenties Aileen Weintraub hadn’t quit her job at a Manhattan-based children’s publishing company back in the year 2000 to work...
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    Books: Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown

    Hannah Turner - 0
    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: Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

    Leanne Phillips - 0
    I fell in love with Patti Smith’s music when I was nineteen. Her most widely known song, “Because the Night" from her 1978 album...
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    Books: I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi

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    In her 2018 memoir I Should Have Honor, activist and social entrepreneur Khalida Brohi writes about growing up in a culture in which domestic...
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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

    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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    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

    K. A. Kron - 0
    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

    Cooper Gillespie - 0
    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

    Cooper Gillespie - 0
    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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