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On forced motherhood in America

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“Don’t talk about it, be about it.”

May 15

Some reflections on why we're still here

Apr 23

On Severance, the ideal worker, numbing out, and precarity

Apr 7

"The urge of personal writers, particularly those of historically marginalized identities, is often an internalized sense of inferiority."

Mar 18

And the madness of becoming a mother in America

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Feb 10

Monthly Prompt: Erase the Pandemic Last week, I made two little poems out of a notice I received about four confirmed Covid cases at my oldest child’s elementary school. The form …

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