Surviving With Grace by Judith P. Bullis
It is not what I expect. Lined up side by side are chairs with patients already hooked up to IVs, and one empty chair for Katie, a giant vacuum of space waiting...
Category: Girls & Women
12 minute read/ACEs/Adoption/Adversity/Childhood/Family/Girls & Women/Inspirational/Literature/Memoir/nonfiction/trauma
Loving My Attachment Challenged Daughter by Bari Benjamin
Liliya had been abandoned at six months by her birth mom, left in a baby carriage in a train station in Moscow. The Russian police took her to an orphanage wher...
Waterbabies by Heather Diamond
When he arrives, I am holding the paper bag (because the woman is always holding the bag) they gave each of us in the recovery room where one brash young woman ...
7 Minute Read/Childhood/Family/Girls & Women/Identity/Inspirational/Literature/Love/nonfiction/On Memory
Twenty Six by Samhitha Saiba
I learn that people love having words stolen out of their mouths and fed back to them. I become the world’s most benevolent thief.
10 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Institutions/Justice/LGBTQ/Literature/Memoir/nonfiction/Rape Culture/Sexism/Society
Three Women Walk into a Bar By Annie Krabbenschmidt
As a gay woman, I have acquired a quick bar banter that cuts men loose before they can get my name. In response to their drunken prattling, I cut to the chase. ...
#MeToo/#SAAM/10 Minute Read/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay/Girls & Women/Grief/Health/Loss/Memoir/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture/trauma
Smeared by Rachel Carson
"Did you know some hospitals have an entire department dedicated to rape victims?"
#MeToo/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay/5 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Girls & Women/Loss/Memoir/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture/The Life/trauma
Blowjobs by F. M. Walsh
We avoid their touch by pissing our pants on purpose. Boys don’t want to fondle girls who piss their pants. Fucking babies. We hide. We find a way out of the wo...
2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay/7 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Literature/Loss/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture
Relax by Katharine Bost
I want to shout that I had only had one beer. I want to jump back in the cab and pray that the driver takes me home even though I don’t have any cash for him. B...
5 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Childhood/Escape/Family/Girls & Women/Grief/Identity/Literature/Loss/Memoir/Mommy Dearest/nonfiction/PTSD/Secrets/The Life/trauma
They Don’t Live in Dallas by Anna Mullins
Sometimes you lie so much you begin to believe what you say. Sometimes you don’t even have to say the lies out loud to believe them.