In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

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Judy Blume, "girl parts," and old letters
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Judy Blume, "girl parts," and old letters

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Sara Petersen
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Reading

Complicated, relatable, upsetting thoughts about the nuclear family, divorce, and childcare at

Radical Matriarch
(h/t
lyz
at
Men Yell at Me
)

So, save from divorce, how do we solve for the underlying issue of having one’s time simultaneously committed to both paid and unpaid work? How do we grant ourselves and each other more temporal autonomy within this current framework? And is it possible to do within a nuclear family construct

“I Wrote a Book About Aliens. But My Favorite Ones Lived on Earth.”

As a stereotypical first daughter who is still trying to extract her self-worth from her output and her ability to garner external validation, I can’t wait to read Rainesford Stauffer’s new book, All the Gold Stars, and found this piece on ambition and OCD beautifully expressed and painfully relatable.

Not the relief of having finally fallen, but dragging myself round and round, wondering why I can’t stop?

Good abortion news!

An excerpt of Momfluenced in Time!

An excerpt of

Virginia Sole-Smith
’s Fat Talk in Time!

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Long live Judy Blume.

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