The first time I tried embroidery, it was out of desperation. I’d been trying to fill my workspace with more sex-positive artwork and, after hanging a piece from Elaro Embroidery that featured nude women with pink and red flowers in place of their vulvas, I fell in love with an embroidered uterus done by Elise […]
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On Friday, June 24th, I had tickets to see Brandi Carlile, lesbian musician and author of Broken Horses, at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. On Friday, June 24th, a group of five unelected justices made the decision to renounce a nearly 50 year precedent and repealed Roe V. Wade. It is, quite literally, a
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Our July theme is LIBERATION, so Alana, Rah, and Tayler shared a little bit about what liberation means to them. Then Renee talks you through the decision to select this theme and shares a bit more about what to expect this month. You can join our virtual community here or sign up for our book
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After nearly 50 years, Roe V. Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court. This leaves abortion up to individual states and their elected officials giving the opportunity for roughly 20 trigger states, which are states with laws set in place in order to act on abortion bans given the opportunity, to criminalize those who
Read Then Organize: 4 Books to Read as Roe V. Wade Overturns Read More »
Don’t go alone to that party. Call me when you get there. Watch your drink. Carry your keys like Wolverine’s claws in your fist when you’re walking at night. But try not to walk at night. Remember your self-defense training. Check under and inside your car before you get in. Try not to smile too
No White Flags – the Supreme Court’s War on Humanity Read More »
CW: rape Angry. Disappointed. Heartbroken. Devastated. Terrified. These are just a few of the emotions that I and many folks across the nation felt on June 24th as the decision of overturning Roe v. Wade was released. To the Supreme Court members who voted to push this through: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Clarence
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In A.E. Copenhaver’s debut novel, an overwhelmed environmentalist named Cara finds unexpected—and ethically questionable—relief in her boyfriend’s carefree mother Millie. My Days of Dark Green Euphoria is simultaneously a wild ride of an adventure tale and an important exploration of eco-anxiety in our modern world. I spoke with A.E. Copenhaver about what led her to
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The internet is difficult to describe. It is a porous thing, multifaceted, influencing and infiltrating every aspect of our lives. We enter and exit it potentially hundreds of times a day, each time our thumbs bring us back to Instagram or a notification buzzes in our pocket. Many of its uses are mundane, but it
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Ashley interviewed Ashley M. Coleman about her debut novel, GOOD MORNING, LOVE. In the interview, Ashley asked about world building in the music industry, writing a meaningful boss who is a Black woman, developing characters with dreams and insecurities, writing Black men who are vulnerable and evolving, and her platform for BIPOC writers, Permission to
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I never intended to write about the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp defamation lawsuit. With the media circus that occurred around the trial—the pile-on against Heard made up of TikTok memes and Twitter threads, death threats and other forms of denigration because she didn’t fit the mold of the “perfect victim”—I didn’t want to touch this topic
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Everyone in your life is temporary. Ghosting is defined as “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.” Everyone you come across in life is not going to have the communication capability to articulate how they feel. I see people upset that the person they
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You may not know this, but Renee and Ashley are huge sports fans. They chat about women’s sports, why they love them, pay discrepancy, and the particularly disturbing story of WNBA star Brittney Griner’s arrest in Russia, where she has been detained for over 100 days. Resources Mentioned: LFG – documentary about the US Women’s
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