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Rebecca Woolf, Chelsea Gilmore, Richard Rushfield
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a 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.

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surgical enhancements may be a choice but so is choosing to ignore their implications

phantom limb test 2 by Lynn Hershman Leeson (along with all art featured, here)

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the most dangerous thing I was never good at

“Danielle K. Hart” is the author of Pinprick Eyes, a memoir about the particular kind of disappearance that looks, from the outside, like perfect love. I have known “Danielle” for almost twenty years and am so proud to know and love her. He...

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"pics or it didn't happen" and the cultural refusal to believe a woman's truth without "proof"

(if a woman cannot prove she was felled in a forest, do her screams make a sound?)

In the early days of blogging, not long after digital cameras made long-form writing feel naked without a visual, our stories could not be trusted. And they...

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we should all know more about each other

on public shaming, storytelling, and the secret lives of women who were once girls

I did not read Adult Braces but I have been following the discourse. Lurking. Agreeing and also disagreeing with what has been written and rewritten ad naus...

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  • Rebecca Woolf

    mother of four, author of books, (inc ALL OF THIS: a memoir of death and desire) and sex & the single mom. formerly girl’s gone child. currently in my car driving someone somewhere prob.

  • Chelsea Gilmore

    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.

  • Richard Rushfield

    Columnist, The Ankler

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