the braid
Rebecca Woolf, Richard Rushfield, Jodi Helene Arndt, Chelsea Gilmorea newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 168 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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stop butchering the word fuck with an asterisk
time to choose between the witch you were raised to fear (your own voice) or the pyre they will use to burn you with your own need for vAlidatIon
There is nothing more detrimental to your work than harboring fear of offending others which...
introducing girl on girl, a new bi-weekly column on the Rumpus
I have written about Monica before, here. I have also written about her here, here, and here. She has written about us, here and here and also here and here.
There is a chapter devoted to her in my book although her name has been changed t...
Hex and the City
in a different time, I would have been dragged out of my house and burned at the stake probably
I was really trying to do it differently this time.
Cosmic Compensation
The following was written by the brave and brilliant Jodi Arndt who you should follow immediately on substack. I love you, Jodi. Thank you for sharing this one with us here. <3
art by @lauramakabresku
I sat with the old check in my hand,...
how the locker room scene in MSCL made fools of an entire generation of yearning women who learned to tell time with a broken clock
on the romanticization of men who have zero desire to know the women they claim to love but occasionally do something cute/look good in shearling
My first ever kiss — and by kiss I mean, French and by French I mean with tongue —happened on...
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mother of four, author of books, (inc ALL OF THIS: a memoir of death and desire) sex & the single mom and the Rumpus’ girl on girl. formerly girl’s gone child. currently in my car driving someone somewhere prob.
Columnist, The Ankler
Jodi has spent a decade navigating the dumpster fire that is Alzheimer’s. Misadventures with Mom and caregiving escapades with her Dad birth wild stuff. She sifts through words and writes to make sense of ambiguous loss while trying to keep sane.
Chelsea Gilmore is a screenwriter+CD+CMO multi-hyphenate. She moved 20 times before 20, which means she gets along with everyone except assholes. She once lost her car in a Disney parking lot for 7 hours. She considers LA the greatest city on earth.
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