The first time I went to a Pride March and community festival, I left my five-year-old child with friends when I visited the staging area...[Read More]
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Stay the course, we’re advised by federal, state and local officials as we count the long days in North Carolina’s Stay-at-Home order. Stay safe. Stay...[Read More]
Yesterday the mayor sent an email asking me to press pause and go out from my home only for work, food, medicine, and solitary outdoor...[Read More]
I’m looking for some comfort these days as the world shrinks into itself. When I was a child, my mother’s arms always provided that comfort,...[Read More]
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In her New York Times piece on August 15 of last year, author Kim Brooks (Small Animals: Parenthood in an Age of Fear) makes the...[Read More]
In December 2019, Women Advance will be rerunning some of our favorite stories during the year. There are too many amazing stories to highlight, but...[Read More]
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Buried amidst candidate town halls, presidential tweets, and memorials to the 75th anniversary of D Day in early June, the Trump Administration began a campaign...[Read More]
I never had an abortion, although those services have always been legally available to me. With two miscarriages behind me, by the time I got...[Read More]
“How was your Ohio friends’ visit,” I was asked at the church picnic. Fun, I said. Great weather and wonderful seafood. Those words were the...[Read More]
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why did I spend so many years listening to media messages about beauty instead of...[Read More]
