the braid
Rebecca Woolf, corrie clements, Jodi Helene Arndt, Richard Rushfield, Stephanie Truax | Writera 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 | 176 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Before She Stays
The following is a guest essay by one of my favorite writers, Stephanie Truax. Thank you for this beauty, Stephanie.
I recently asked a man I’d been in love with twenty years ago if he’d seen Before Sunset. He hadn’t, but he said h...
for men, a woman’s jealousy builds a case for his justification that women cannot be seen as anything other than sex objects and for women, it reinforces this idea.
few things make patriarchy’s dick harder than a jealous woman. and yet...
One of the more damaging lines in any movie, I think, is the line in When Harry Met Sally when Billy Crystal tells Meg Ryan that men and women can’t be friends.
the empress has no closure (but she does have fists. and a pen.)
on hulu’s Furious, the Cornell 7, vigilante justice, the man in the windowless van and why men should be fucking terrified of women, not the other way around
I have only ever made a police report once and it was a month ago.
for my daughter on her eighteenth birthday
You were born on October 2nd, at 3:23 in the morning, during the crash. I watched the news while my body contracted. There was so much uncertainty and I was terrified to bring you into the world.
I did not think I was capable of mothering...
notes from the archival limitations of time travel
photo by Thomas Campbell
I knew he was dead the moment I saw the missing person’s report. I don’t know if you’re supposed to say that out loud or on paper or on a screen or anywhere other than internally but I saw the post while waiting fo...
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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.
Mom, writer, teacher, yoga instructor, Vegas raised. Found my voice as a widow. Work published in literary journals. Writing my debut memoir between work, kids, and plotting to quit my day job.
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.
Columnist, The Ankler
Chicago-based writer. Essays on motherhood, desire, illness, and the indignities and delights of figuring yourself out in midlife.
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