SUNDAY: Take 2 hours for yourself and write with WMM! We'll share strategies for prioritizing our craft, explore examples by other writer moms, and write. You'll leave this workshop energized and armed with a plan for recommitting to your creative work. https://t.co/jXOSVkoJSx
I was recently floored by a line of dialogue in a children’s book—��We don’t ignore bigotry, Jack. That’s how cowardly bigots turn into brave bigots”—if you were wondering why children’s books are important, and why there has been so much concerted effort to ban them.
I posted the story of my pregnancy & "disappointed" mentor in my PhD Mamas FB group & the horror stories flooding in are painful
"one of our advisors told a pregnant friend that she had marched so that my friend didn’t have to do this, gesturing at her pregnant belly" @Momademia
what are your favorite novels AND short stories about feminine rage? books like nightbitch, ferrante, my sister the serial killer, carrie... looking for any and all suggestions to expand my repertoire
We’re planning a live Writer Mother Monster episode at the Stonington CT library in August. Please share the names of CT or New England writer-moms who would be able to talk about literacy, book banning, and other library-adjacent topics!
I research women and far-right movements in the U.S. and Europe, including why women are increasingly likely to join and how their role has changed. This speech was a masterclass. 1/
Every now and then (like today) i get a Google alert that a man has written a blog post about how terrible and crazy my writing and person are, and when it happens I buy myself a really really fancy treat and also cast some spells