People
Know Their Names: Women Composers Neglected By History
“I once believed that I had creative talent, but I have given up this idea,” Clara Schumann wrote in her diary in 1839.
How to Travel Through Time with Your Kindred Spirit (and Also Make a Feminist Webseries)
How much importance is seemly to place on our work and friends? How big a feeling are we allowed to feel for things that are not global calamities, or men?
When We Knew Our Boy Was Slipping Away
We were so worried about surviving that we’d forgotten to show him even little ways to live.
The Pain Clinic
The opioid crisis has made it risky for doctors to prescribe pain medications to suffering patients in need.
“The Landlord”: A Novel by Kristin Hunter
Kristin Hunter gave attention to subtle worlds within worlds and psyches within psyches.
When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion
As an autistic child, I scrambled to figure out when my passions became too overbearing, too ‘me’ for other people.
Schrödinger’s Cancer
You think you’ll never take wellness for granted. But, despite your best intentions, you do.
What Isn’t Mine Is Mine: Accepting Intergenerational Trauma
We inherit trauma through the actions of family members and through the stories they share.
How Disability Helps Me Find Life in Death
“If losing your friends all the time is a dismal way to live, closing yourself off from humanity is even more grim.”
How the Hairy-Chested Yeti Crab Taught Me to Survive Trump’s America
“There’s definitely a ton of colored people here!” a white guy told me. “I mean, people of color. That’s what I said, right?”