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On Memoir Writing, Privacy, and Truth-telling
Or, How I Became a (Slightly) More Private Person
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Donna Minkowitz
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My Gender
Scenes from a Gender-Varied Life
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THIS IS THE ONE ABOUT CLASS
Let's talk about class. Economic class, if you were wondering. What is mine? My class is complicated. According to social media, it's not supposed to…
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Greetings, Rough Tongues
Hey, Rough Tongue friends! I know I have not been keeping to my usual biweekly publication schedule. Thanks for bearing with me — I am working on a long…
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Love Anniversary
I never thought I would be lucky in love. When I was nine, it's true, I imagined someone — a man with long hair, sitting under an oak tree —looking…
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My Daddy, Crying
"I cried when I saw you marching in, because I knew you weren't a baby anymore." My father wrote this in my high school yearbook on the day I graduated…
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No, Don't Platform Fascist Poets
Over at Becky Tuch's Lit Mag News, a curious conversation is going on about whether it's permissible for a publisher to refuse to publish an author (or…
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Scary Sister
I've been wanting to tell you about my sister. When I was five, X and I would play with our Barbie and Ken dolls on the big wooden dining room table. We…
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The Place
Content warning: violence. My whole life, I've been coming back to this room. I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE, I don't want to be here. I lie down and sniff the…
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Sadness Gets Its Foot in the Door
Today's a good day to talk about sadness. ("Oh no!" you're saying. "There's enough freaking sadness in the newspaper.") But yes, sadness has been a…
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The Racist Right Looks Left
White Supremacists Discover Anti-Capitalism
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I Am Not A Brand
And I'm Pretty Sure You're Not, Either
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