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May 13, 2025WHEN SHE WAS 23, Julia de Burgos renamed herself. It was 1937, and the Puerto Rican poet had just divorced her first husband, scandalizing her conservative compatriots. She...
March 19, 2025Every young feminist, at some point, bumps up against the limits of her ideals. For me, it happened in my early 20s. My consciousness freshly raised and my mind spongier than ever, I...- February 13, 2025Recently, at a wedding, my boyfriend and I were asked rather abrasively about the prospect of children. The bride, a mother of two, first posed the question to me. I told her I did...
January 24, 2025IF THERE WERE a magic pill, would you take it? Every disabled person I know has been asked this question, or else posed it to themselves. Once, I would have dismissed the...
