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Hard to Believe It's Only Tuesday: Street Light, Feeeeetus
Here’s what happened in abortion news + takes this week. Welcome back to Hard to Believe It’s Only Tuesday, my weekly roundup of the top headlines, tweets, takes, and more in abortion news. I regret to inform you that you will not be able to finish reading this edition of Hard to Believe without learning…
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Hard to Believe It's Only Tuesday: Dud Dems Week
Here’s what happened in abortion news + takes this week. Welcome back to Hard to Believe It’s Only Tuesday, my weekly roundup of the top headlines, tweets, takes, and more in abortion news. If you’re just emerging from a long sabbatical at the center of the earth — first of all, congratulations, that sounds amazing…
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Hard to Believe It's Only Tuesday: the SCOTUS Leak Week
Here’s what happened in abortion news + takes this week. Last Friday, I went out for after-work drinks with my husband — who’s also a journalist — and the conversation turned, as it inevitably does or perhaps always already is, to the sheer amount of shit to keep up with these days. Simultaneous terrifying and…
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The Ghost of Quarantine Present
A new story for Halloween. Last year, I shared a story called “The Stair Sweeper” with my newsletter readers for a special Halloween treat. This year, I’ve written a new one, “The Ghost of Quarantine Present.” Perhaps we’ll make it a tradition. It was all very auspicious at first! I could scarcely have asked for…
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Stop It With The Fucking Coat Hangers
It’s 2021. We need to educate ourselves and spread the word about safe self-managed abortion with pills. UPDATE, MIDNIGHT 9/2/2021: The Supreme Court has allowed Texas’ unprecedented abortion ban and get-rich-quick scheme for anti-abortion creeps to go into effect. Consider everything I wrote below to be approximately nine-thousand times as emphasized, with bells on and…
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The Stair Sweeper
A story for Halloween. Here’s a story I wrote when we lived in San Francisco for a while. Happy Halloween, y’all. Joel had laughed the first night I heard the sweeper. I’d shaken him awake, panting and terrified at four in the morning, and he’d laughed. He’d said he didn’t hear anything. Which was why…
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anti-racist reading + listening list
for the white folks at home with the armadillo Some of you asked for the anti-racist reading list I talked about on Instagram. Some of you are just gonna be getting this email anyway. Instead of a big link dump, I thought I’d aggregate some resources that have been meaningful for me personally. I will…
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I Want a House with a Crowded Table
On “reopening” Texas and the deadly illogic of individualism. The week before it got weird to go outside, my husband and I bought a house. We started talking about hiring plumbers to run a gas line to the new kitchen, and finding a good carpenter to build new cabinets. When our friends brought Clorox wipes…
Home With The Armadillo 