The Mother Lode
Cindy DiTiberio, Catherine Baab, Ruth Whippman, avalon, Savala Nolan, Rebecca Woolf, Gemma Hartley, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Tracy Clark-Flory, Corinne LowA feminist exploration of motherhood, marriage, and divorce
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 174 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Writing as Resurrection
Last night, I watched Hamnet, perhaps a strange thing to do on Mother’s Day. But perhaps not. If anything, it is a story about the anguish of motherhood. A story about how painful it can be to have made something from the cells of your body...
The Unexpected Joys of Divorce
I reached out to a few weeks ago about doing a Substack Live because I love her writing and knew she’d gone through a divorce around the same time as I did. I had no idea when we started our Live how much we would have in common. We have k...
"I was living a bad Netflix plotline"
The Divorce Diaries, 16
Every divorce story is unique, from what caused the split, to what issues were most contentious in the divorce negotiations, to how they determined who moved out, parenting time and so much more.
What Are Men For? Volume Two
I first came upon the writing of about six months ago and referenced one of her posts in October. I could tell she was someone who was willing, post-divorce, to truly interrogate our inner messaging about who we should be as women, how we...
Why Women Leave Marriages
Men don’t understand the consequences of carrying the mental load. That not having any bandwidth to be a person who has thoughts of their own, let alone hobbies, or rest and relaxation, can kill your soul.
I had the privilege of being int...
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Writer of The Mother Lode and a New York Times bestselling collaborator and editor who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. Her writing has appeared in The Lily, Yahoo, Scary Mommy, Literary Mama, Mutha Magazine, and more.
Writer, journalist: Slate, Lit Hub, WSJ, CNBC, NBC. Author of Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru.
Author and journalist. Former BBC documentary maker. Words in New York Times, Guardian etc. Author of BoyMom, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (Harmony/ Penguin 2024) and America the Anxious (St Martins 2016)
after 24 years of marriage, I let my life implode in service of truth. I write about desire, identity, power, and the evolution of inherited scripts—while working on a memoir rooted in the personal journey that brought me here.
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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.
Speaker, writing coach, and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Award-winning science journalist, regular contributor to The New York Times, author of HELLO, CRUEL WORLD! and HOW TO RAISE KIDS WHO AREN’T ASSHOLES.
Tracy Clark-Flory is the author of the memoir MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER. Also: WANT ME. She is a journalist, essayist, and co-hosts the podcast Dire Straights. Her weekly newsletter, TCF Emails, covers sex, pop culture, and feminism.
Economist at Wharton. Author, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours.
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