Parents Who Think

Parents Who Think

Home
Notes
Chat
Noise
Podcast
Parents That Write
Work with Me
About

Noise

Good Girls Don’t Get Rich
We don’t talk enough about how well-behaved women are still expected to be, even in business.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
9
Official: Strong Women make People Lazy
We romanticise fragility and abandon the composed. Here’s what that costs, and why I dressed like contradiction when I read sex aloud in a church.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
16
A Clean Kitchen. A Filthy Secret.
A reflection on memoir, truth, and in which I talk dirty and no one dies.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
25
The Art of Being a Glorious Disappointment
Because disappointment is the mother tongue of womanhood
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
20
The Extra-Weird Work in Female Friendships
On the ethics of Sisterlifting nobody warns you about
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
50
The Invisible Co-Parent Lurking in My Life Right Now
Mothering in the Age of AI: Includes two prompts to help audit and redistribute the invisible labour in your home.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
15
The Substack Safety Kit (Made After Watching a Friend’s Substack Vanish)
This kit wasn’t born out of curiosity.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
185
When Mothers Have Sex
On appetite, aliveness, and the machinery of maternal silence
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
53
Why are Women Like Me Called Scary?
Here's the real reason we side-eye the women who won't shrink
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
9
Thank You for Your Service (Now Please Be Quiet)
A Meditation on Motherwashing
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
23
Take Off Your Big Girl Pants (And Set Them On Fire)
There’s a phrase women hear when we’re expected to pull ourselves together, shut up about the discomfort, and get on with it: Put on your big girl…
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
12
The Myth of the Beautiful Home
Some call it art. For many, it’s survival.
 • 
Danusia Malina-Derben
15
© 2025 Danusia Malina-Derben
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture