By Rachel Yoder, 2021 Nightbitch is a married woman and mother to a toddler. Her husband works out of town and is gone most of the week, and she gave up her work in the arts to be home with her son. The novel is told in the third person, almost like folklore: a motherContinue reading “Nightbitch”
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Barbie
2023, Directed by Greta Gerwig It wasn’t until Ruby Warrington (author of Women Without Kids) posted on Instagram about Barbie being a child-free icon that this film even caught my eye. And then it seemed it was absolutely everywhere I looked. [SPOILERS AHEAD] I loved Barbie as a kid. I had a friend a fewContinue reading “Barbie”
Women Without Kids
Ruby Warrington, 2023 I wish this book wasn’t about a “revolution,” but it is. Sixty years after The Feminine Mystique (as one example) revealed that — GASP — not every woman in the world wants to be a mother, we are still trying to believe it. There are headlines around the world about declining birthContinue reading “Women Without Kids”
Reply To: Vulture
My thoughts on a recent interview on Vulture. With things like interracial marriage, or gay marriage, or immigration rights, or any number of things, you can see big opinion shifts in America in the span of a few years or even months sometimes. But it seems like Americans have made their mind up on abortion.Continue reading “Reply To: Vulture”
The Business of Birth Control
Documentary, screened with The Trouble Club at The Vagina Museum, London19 October, 2022 Members of the Trouble Club (like me!) were invited to a screening of a new documentary, The Business of Birth Control, from Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake. The filmmakers describe it as an examination of “the complex relationship between hormonal birth controlContinue reading “The Business of Birth Control”
Free Woman
By Lara Feigel, published 2018. Philippe Petit said “I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion…not to become a criminal, but…you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free.” It seems that “doing things that are a little bit forbidden” is an important path toContinue reading “Free Woman”
Monica Cardenas 