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What If Good Mothers Have Filthy Minds?
A field report from the fantasies mothers keep under lock and tongue
17 hrs ago
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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Good Girls Don’t Get Rich
We don’t talk enough about how well-behaved women are still expected to be, even in business.
Sep 9
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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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.
Jul 28
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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A Clean Kitchen. A Filthy Secret.
A reflection on memoir, truth, and in which I talk dirty and no one dies.
Jul 20
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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The Art of Being a Glorious Disappointment
Because disappointment is the mother tongue of womanhood
Jul 6
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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The Extra-Weird Work in Female Friendships
On the ethics of Sisterlifting nobody warns you about
Jun 22
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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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.
May 18
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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The Substack Safety Kit (Made After Watching a Friend’s Substack Vanish)
This kit wasn’t born out of curiosity.
May 8
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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When Mothers Have Sex
On appetite, aliveness, and the machinery of maternal silence
Apr 20
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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Why are Women Like Me Called Scary?
Here's the real reason we side-eye the women who won't shrink
Apr 6
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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Thank You for Your Service (Now Please Be Quiet)
A Meditation on Motherwashing
Mar 30
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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Take Off Your Big Girl Pants (And Set Them On Fire)
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Mar 9
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Danusia Malina-Derben
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