Featured Women’s Stories

 
Personal Essays
I Earned My Stripes
I Earned My Stripes
Waterstones
Waterstones
Polar Solstice
Polar Solstice
Tears for Vivian
Tears for Vivian
Wedding Song
Wedding Song
(W)hole
(W)hole
The Cost of Leaving
The Cost of Leaving
The Memorial
The Memorial
The Dress
The Dress
Painted Brown
Painted Brown
How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Girl?
How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Girl?
Seeking, Listening, Echoing
Seeking, Listening, Echoing
Illumination
Illumination
Eyes in the Dark
Eyes in the Dark
Valentine's Day Thoughts
Valentine's Day Thoughts
Cold Water
Cold Water
The Weight of Her Womb
The Weight of Her Womb
The Unbearably Long List of Joys
The Unbearably Long List of Joys
He Said I Should Move Back East-
He Said I Should Move Back East-
Change of Heart
Change of Heart
The Albedo Effect
The Albedo Effect
Why We Came
Why We Came
So, You Joined a Sorority
So, You Joined a Sorority
If You Relate to These Five Albums by the Mountain Goats, You Might Want to Consider Therapy
If You Relate to These Five Albums by the Mountain Goats, You Might Want to Consider Therapy
About the Dog and Me
About the Dog and Me
If Walls Could Talk
If Walls Could Talk
Trust
Trust
Nashville via Denver
Nashville via Denver
Tears
Tears
Lithromancer
Lithromancer
Monthly Theme Essays
Her Road
Her Road
The Sandbar Girls
The Sandbar Girls
Gambling on Friendship
Gambling on Friendship
Something Marginally Less Preposterous
Something Marginally Less Preposterous
A Golden Connection
A Golden Connection
Relentless
Relentless
Unspoken
Unspoken
Show Me A Still Heart
Show Me A Still Heart
The First Boy
The First Boy
The Passage
The Passage
Sobriety Sucks
Sobriety Sucks
Sex Ed
Sex Ed
The Great Waddle: Office Life on an Exercise Ball
The Great Waddle: Office Life on an Exercise Ball
Through the Plexiglass
Through the Plexiglass
On Hold
On Hold
Cowboy, Circa 1982
Cowboy, Circa 1982
We Wish You The Best (After We Regret to Inform You)
We Wish You The Best (After We Regret to Inform You)
Wardrobe Woes and Other Assorted Misadventures
Wardrobe Woes and Other Assorted Misadventures
Science and Poetry
Science and Poetry
What's Memorable
What's Memorable
Coming Back Up
Coming Back Up
Hard to Love
Hard to Love
Swimming with Turtles
Swimming with Turtles
Trespasser
Trespasser
Rising
Rising
I Invite My Mother's Ghost to Lunch at Ikea
I Invite My Mother's Ghost to Lunch at Ikea
Tamale Weather
Tamale Weather
Not Your Mother's Meatloaf
Not Your Mother's Meatloaf
How My Mother Taught Me About My Body
How My Mother Taught Me About My Body
How to Be Queer in Ten Easy Steps
How to Be Queer in Ten Easy Steps
AMPLIFY
Looking Back to Move Forward: Featuring a Very Special Amplifier!
Looking Back to Move Forward: Featuring a Very Special Amplifier!
Amplify InBetween: The Second to Last
Amplify InBetween: The Second to Last
Shapers of a Movement: Movement through Radical Feminist Punk
Shapers of a Movement: Movement through Radical Feminist Punk
Shapers of a Movement: Dorothy Stopford Price and the Fight for Community Health
Shapers of a Movement: Dorothy Stopford Price and the Fight for Community Health
Shapers of a Movement: The Impact of Women of Color and Nonbinary Folx in Organizing Spaces
Shapers of a Movement: The Impact of Women of Color and Nonbinary Folx in Organizing Spaces
Shapers of a Movement: When Women Strike Back
Shapers of a Movement: When Women Strike Back
Amplify Introduction: Taking a Look at the Shapers of a Movement
Amplify Introduction: Taking a Look at the Shapers of a Movement
Amplify InBetween: The Keepers of the Community
Amplify InBetween: The Keepers of the Community
Sisterhood and the Many Identities of Pat Parker
Sisterhood and the Many Identities of Pat Parker
Amplify InBetween: Women Who Reshaped Their Homelands
Amplify InBetween: Women Who Reshaped Their Homelands
Rage Against the System: Sex Workers of the ECP Take on the Church, Racism, and Police Brutality
Rage Against the System: Sex Workers of the ECP Take on the Church, Racism, and Police Brutality
Anna Julia Cooper, The Black Liberation Feminist
Anna Julia Cooper, The Black Liberation Feminist
Amplify InBetween: First in Class
Amplify InBetween: First in Class
The Poetic WarriHER, Janice Mirikitani
The Poetic WarriHER, Janice Mirikitani
Amplify InBetween: Nachiyar, Seacole, and WarriHER Resources
Amplify InBetween: Nachiyar, Seacole, and WarriHER Resources
The Meeting of Greatness: How the Trưng Sisters and Laskarina Bouboulina Changed Their Countries' History
The Meeting of Greatness: How the Trưng Sisters and Laskarina Bouboulina Changed Their Countries' History
Amplify InBetween: Four Revolutionary WarriHERs You Should Know
Amplify InBetween: Four Revolutionary WarriHERs You Should Know
Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Lead Stratgiest and Revolutionary Icon
Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Lead Stratgiest and Revolutionary Icon
AMPLIFY Introduction: Amplifying the Revolutionary WarriHers
AMPLIFY Introduction: Amplifying the Revolutionary WarriHers
AMPLIFY: Redefining Activism with Grace Lee Boggs
AMPLIFY: Redefining Activism with Grace Lee Boggs
AMPLIFY: The Women of Greenham Common, Camping For Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
AMPLIFY: The Women of Greenham Common, Camping For Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
AMPLIFY: Soledad Estorach, Anarcha-Feminist Breaking Tradition in Times of War
AMPLIFY: Soledad Estorach, Anarcha-Feminist Breaking Tradition in Times of War
AMPLIFY: The Lavender Menance, Disrupters of the Feminist Movement
AMPLIFY: The Lavender Menance, Disrupters of the Feminist Movement
AMPLIFY: Sigird Phyllis Stearner - The Revolutionary Scientist
AMPLIFY: Sigird Phyllis Stearner - The Revolutionary Scientist
AMPLIFY: The Women of the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike of 1881
AMPLIFY: The Women of the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike of 1881
AMPLIFY: Dorothy Roberts
AMPLIFY: Dorothy Roberts
AMPLIFY: Reiko Okuyama
AMPLIFY: Reiko Okuyama
AMPLIFY: Dr. Ruby Hirose
AMPLIFY: Dr. Ruby Hirose
AMPLIFY: Winona LaDuke
AMPLIFY: Winona LaDuke
AMPLIFY: Lucy Hicks Anderson
AMPLIFY: Lucy Hicks Anderson