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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.
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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.
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The Art of Being a Glorious Disappointment
Because disappointment is the mother tongue of womanhood
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The Extra-Weird Work in Female Friendships
On the ethics of Sisterlifting nobody warns you about
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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.
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The Substack Safety Kit (Made After Watching a Friend’s Substack Vanish)
This kit wasn’t born out of curiosity.
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When Mothers Have Sex
On appetite, aliveness, and the machinery of maternal silence
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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
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Thank You for Your Service (Now Please Be Quiet)
A Meditation on Motherwashing
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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…
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The Myth of the Beautiful Home
Some call it art. For many, it’s survival.
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Call for Submissions
Bring Me Your Stories, Secrets, and Scandals
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