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What Does It Take to Be a Woman Who Has It All?
When we look at women who work, what remains unseen and what is expected to remain hidden?
My Great-Grandfather’s Saddle Rug Helps Me Remember a Tibet That’s Gone
I borrowed a bicycle and explored, in the same way my great-grandfather had gone about on his pony sixty years earlier.
How I’m Learning to Manage Rage as a Bipolar Woman
Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?
May This Pandemic Help Us Abandon Ableist Language
Disability justices can be, and are, plural.
First You Must Know Something Is Wrong
Everyone’s experience of a diagnosis is different. Here is mine: A key opens a lock I didn’t know existed, sending a door swinging wide.
Get Your Kicks on Route 66: A Comic
I’ll drive with that tender balance of guilt and curiosity and a lifetime of learning and unlearning, still looking for an America that was there, is there, and will be there.
How Mental Illness Became a Scapegoat for Trump’s White Supremacy
When you attribute someone’s evil actions to their mental health status rather than their actual root cause—like white supremacy—then that evil is no longer presented as a choice.
How Years of Running Beauty Focus Groups Nearly Destroyed Me
I am the only one in the room who is neither asked nor allowed to answer: “How does that make you feel?”
The Year of Breath
I try to feel my lungs expanding and contracting, just to make sure they still are. There is something soothing, like the indigo of a fading day, in that reminder.
Unlearning What the Patriarchy Taught Me About the Pecking Order of Women
In my flocks, I’ve borne witness to what I fear.
