My whole pre-teen and teenage life, I watched films and television shows and thought, “Where am I?” Never before had I seen a girl with a subway map of scars on her body get the guy of her dreams. I had never seen a girl who used a walker be the prom queen.
Poets use language as a means of connection and coping that makes the listener, in turn, feel just a little bit less alone.
What’s missing? Americans’ obligation to promote human rights around the globe.
“We need hope, the ingredient that keeps us going when we might otherwise quit. And don’t forget the fun.”
Read up on (and spread awareness of) what it will look like in a post-Roe world.
Extra-legal abortions will look different from what they did in the 1970s.
But it is who we are: what the United States is doing to families and children, specifically families and children of color, by ripping them apart at the U.S. border is part and parcel of an ongoing history. It is horrific and unbearable and inhumane. But it is exactly what America is and continues to be.
Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Rochelle Distelheim about what it feels like to have her debut novel published when she’s in her nineties.
Project Sheila, the brainchild of Eliza Cussen, is designed to supply aspiring female politicians with high-quality campaign websites.
