Featured Women’s Stories

 
Personal Essays
Trust
Trust
Nashville via Denver
Nashville via Denver
Tears
Tears
Lithromancer
Lithromancer
Bedside Manner
Bedside Manner
Tight Grip
Tight Grip
Nice Stuff
Nice Stuff
Panda and Tiger
Panda and Tiger
If in the Convent You’d Found a Friend
If in the Convent You’d Found a Friend
The Shattering of Mother
The Shattering of Mother
Poetry in a Second Language: Why I Can't Fully Decolonize My Life
Poetry in a Second Language: Why I Can't Fully Decolonize My Life
Dear Rapist
Dear Rapist
At The Grocery Store Alone, I Think About Becoming A Dead Girl
At The Grocery Store Alone, I Think About Becoming A Dead Girl
Window to the Soul
Window to the Soul
Baring Myself at the Hammam
Baring Myself at the Hammam
Tenure
Tenure
The Barbie in the Middle
The Barbie in the Middle
Cavewoman
Cavewoman
The Lessons that Replaced the Phantom Limb
The Lessons that Replaced the Phantom Limb
Dreams in Color
Dreams in Color
What Does it Matter What Mom Wants
What Does it Matter What Mom Wants
Monster
Monster
On the Occasion of My Fourth Root Canal
On the Occasion of My Fourth Root Canal
Heart/Beat
Heart/Beat
Right On the Inside
Right On the Inside
Champagne Problem
Champagne Problem
That Damn Bottle
That Damn Bottle
On Aphasia
On Aphasia
A Stop at Ellicott City
A Stop at Ellicott City
The Sign
The Sign
Monthly Theme Essays
Born To Run
Born To Run
Perpetual Motion
Perpetual Motion
Everything That Breathes
Everything That Breathes
On a Train to Nice
On a Train to Nice
Friendship Lost—And Found
Friendship Lost—And Found
One More Round
One More Round
Anonymous
Anonymous
Specific Instructions on How to Live a Successful Life
Specific Instructions on How to Live a Successful Life
I Saw My Weight Today
I Saw My Weight Today
One Foot In Front of the Other
One Foot In Front of the Other
The Deep End
The Deep End
Nearly Me? No, I Am All Of Me, Ghosts No More
Nearly Me? No, I Am All Of Me, Ghosts No More
Girl Versus the F-Word
Girl Versus the F-Word
A Structural Problem
A Structural Problem
How to Pump Your Own Gas
How to Pump Your Own Gas
Remembering Rosel
Remembering Rosel
12 Steps to Get Over the Guy
12 Steps to Get Over the Guy
Darkest Night
Darkest Night
Descent
Descent
What You Can Get Away With
What You Can Get Away With
Hoovering Ants : A Christmas Love Story
Hoovering Ants : A Christmas Love Story
Idaho (Or, Places That Exist in My Imagination)
Idaho (Or, Places That Exist in My Imagination)
Wisdom Comes With Age
Wisdom Comes With Age
Making Peace with Cute
Making Peace with Cute
Finally, A Truth
Finally, A Truth
An Uprooting
An Uprooting
I Could Make That for You!
I Could Make That for You!
For People With Dry Eyes
For People With Dry Eyes
Septic Miscarriage
Septic Miscarriage
From the Mouth of Sirens
From the Mouth of Sirens
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