It seems that nowadays there’s a book to help with everything. My apartment is crawling with objects from every phase of my life (plus a few extra lives that I haven’t gotten around to living yet)…and there’s a book for that. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. This book upheld its promise. It changed my life. […]
Read more "Self-Help: How to Procastinate Away Your Imminent Death"As I prepare to teach my first, full-length college-level fiction writing class, I think back on the writing advice that resonated with me over the years. I remember Mary Oliver’s advice: “Writing is like a date. Nothing happens if you don’t show up.” I remember the Willamette Writers Conference session where I grasped the subtleties […]
Read more "Maximum Capacity for the Writer"I’ll admit it: Fashion Police is part of my bad feminist DNA. I can’t remember when I first started watching the show on E! Network; probably around the time that I graduated to expanded basic cable in my first apartment. I wasn’t much of a Joan Rivers fan, but I did like Kelly Osbourne, my […]
Read more "Goodbye Fashion Police"When I told my mom I’d decided to leave Paris and by extension the Louvre, the Canal St. Martin, the Marais, the amazing Chinese place with one-euro appetizers (carmelized lotus root! spicy green beans!) and move back to damp Normandy, she was not convinced. “Why would you want to leave Paris?” she asked, as though […]
Read more "Leaving Paris"This guest contribution comes from Anne Thériault, a Toronto-based writer and cat enthusiast who blogs about feminism, mental health, and parenting. You can follow her on twitter at @anne_theriault or her blog at The Belle Jar. This article originally appeared on Ravishly. Today we asked Baba Yaga—celebrated and infamous Russian witch—to share some of her wisdom and enduring tips […]
Read more "Russian Witch Baba Yaga’s Guide To Feminism"In the months after I had my first child, I was plagued by a variety of gruesome visions. I’d be walking down the stairs, holding my son in a blanket, and picture myself falling and smashing our heads into the wall at the bottom. I’d be driving to Target with him in the backseat and […]
Read more "Violence, Media, and Helicopter Parenting"This was originally published on another blog in 2014, but is no longer available online, so we’ve republished it on the PDXX Collective. by Lauren Rother There’s an impossible choice that we’ve been talking about as a country for centuries: safety or freedom. It is a choice many women make over the course of their lives, often […]
Read more "Safety or Freedom: Which Would You Pick?"This guest contribution comes from Ariel Chesler, an attorney and writer in New York. He lives with his wife and two daughters, and one cat. He is the son of feminist author and psychologist Phyllis Chesler. He’s a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, Role Reboot, and Ravishly.com, a feminist news+culture website and cross-posting collaborative […]
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