Steph Auteri is a journalist who has written for the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, VICE, and elsewhere. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Creative Nonfiction, Southwest Review, and other publications. Her reported memoir, A DIRTY WORD, came out in 2018. She is the founder of GuerrillaSexEd.org. Favorite Genres: horror, comics, horror comics, and narrative journalism.
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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A Book Review

It was the premise of Julie Klam’s The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters that hooked me. The product page description tells of a curious author who, growing up, becomes fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. Over the years, she hears tales of their exploits: big dreams, big loss, abandonment, secret love affairs with […]

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Literary Magazines Still Grapple with a Lack of Diversity

As a freelancer, every day is a new adventure. Depending upon which deadlines I’m juggling, I engage in a mix of research, Zoom interviews, brainstorming, pitching, writing, and yes, let’s be real, scrolling through my Instagram feed. But now that I’m an editor at a literary magazine (a magazine devoted to creative, hoity-toity, literary writing

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Unpaid Family Caregivers Are Having a Heckuva Year
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Unpaid Family Caregivers Have Had a Heckuva Year

Those of you in the Feminist Book Club community know me as the site’s resident sexpert. I typically write about sex positivity, reproductive health, and education. But I assure you, I contain multitudes. And one of those multitudes is, inexplicably, eldercare. It may sound weird, but eldercare has been an interest of mine since childhood,

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The Hatred and Fear at the Root of Anti-Trans Legislation Is Becoming Ever More Overt
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The Hatred and Fear at the Root of Anti-Trans Legislation Is Becoming Ever More Overt

This past February, Juwan J. Holmes of LGBTQ Nation reported that Georgia was considering a piece of anti-trans legislation that would ban transgender girls from participating in school sports. This bill — House Bill 372 — would redefine gender as “a person’s biological sex at birth,” require state-funded schools and associations to ban student-athletes from

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When It Comes to Birth Control Access, We Can Finally Stop Playing Defense

When I spoke to Rachel Fey, the senior director of public policy at Power to Decide, about the new administration the other month, she was giddy. “We’ve spent the last four years playing defense… playing whack-a-mole,” she said. “Trying to protect what we have. But what we know is that’s really not good enough.” She

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