Dana DuBois | I Write Out Loud
Dana DuBois, Ossiana Tepfenhart, Zev Shalev, Karen Marie Shelton, Julie Roginsky, Lawrence Winnerman, Michelle Kinney, The Mayday Network, The Daily Whatever ShowMemoir and cultural essays about love, politics, parenting, and midlife selfhood. New and old work gathered into one living practice of writing out loud — using art and storytelling to reclaim power in chaotic times.
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Photo: iStock, and shared with permission from ParentMap. Image by author.
{Author’s notes: This essay originally published on ParentMap on 5 Feb 2025 and is shared with permission. I was grateful that ParentMap, a longstanding Pacific Nor...
Mother's Day, My Dying Cat, and the Choices We Make | The Podcast
This I Write Out Loud episode was a special conversation.
I’m raw this week. What started as a conversation about Mother’s Day turned into something much bigger: grief, caretaking, aging, creative identity, emotional labor, childhood pets,...
Crone Cocktail Hour: A New Moon Unlike Any Other
I’ve grown to truly love Crone Cocktail Hour.
Each month just before the new moon, , , and I gather round a Substack live and talk about our intentions for the next lunar cycle. Karen regales us with her deep astrological cuts, Ossiana off...
Happy Mother's Day to All the Moms. Just the Moms.
Me with my beautiful mom, 1970.
I love being a mom.
Motherhood is simultaneously the most wonderful and most thankless job in the world—and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m not a fan of so-called Hallmark Holidays, Mother’s Day inclu...
From Barbie to Billionaire Oligarchs
It’s such an honor to start my weekend with and on Saturdays for Sanity. Today’s episode traveled from Barbie to Peter Thiel to democratic collapse in two hours, which felt pretty representative of the current American experience.
The sh...
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Memoirist & cultural essayist. GenX word nerd. I write out loud. Co-host & booker: The Daily Whatever Show. Fine feminist. Loves storytelling, karaoke, ectomorphs, her two teens, and Oxford commas. Loathes the RHCP.
LGBTQ writer, adult industry writer, food critic, freelance writer. Vampire with a sun allergy who doubles as a Demon Vixen. Non-binary. Pinup/Fetish/Adult Model.
Dispatches from the frontlines of the war on democracy. 'Rarely wrong, often ahead, and effective in ways history may yet fully credit.'
I’m a lifelong storyteller, editor, entrepreneur and nerd. I'm still trying to find myself. My work is on Quora & Medium, Substack & Sayzio. I chase ideas across multiple topics, seeking the untold angles. I find humans infinitely fascinating.
Authentic, common-sense straight talk about our politics and culture. Democratic political consultant.
GenXy.io co-founder and co-host of *The Daily Whatever Show*. COO at Blue Amp Media. BannerAndBackbone.com co-founder. Queer Sci-Fi author. Gay AF \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08 Fighting Nazis with snark and cheap tees at www.alpacalunch.com.
The Mayday Network @themaydaynetwork Democratic Strategist, Award winning Creative Director and Ad Maker, Syracuse University Alum, Proud Union Member. Past life: showbiz, CoFounder The Seneca Project
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TDWS is a live morning show about the culture, politics, and creative voices shaping our world. Hosted by lifelong BFFs Dana DuBois & Lawrence Winnerman, the show is curious, candid & a bit wry. The best conversations don’t follow a script.
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