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the braid

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

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on writing the marrow, graying the bangs and letting go of adult children

Hello, friends, and happy back to school to those of you with school-aged children! I am now the exhausted parent of two high school freshman and two (one college, one high school) seniors.

stop butchering the word fuck with an asterisk

time to choose between the witch you were raised to fear (your own voice) or the pyre they will use to burn you with your own need for vAlidatIon

introducing girl on girl, a new bi-weekly column on the Rumpus

from admirers to lovers to something wholly undefinable, we bring you: an exploration of 40-something womanhood, motherhood and the validation that can only be found between women

Hex and the City

in a different time, I would have been dragged out of my house and burned at the stake probably

Cosmic Compensation

a guest essay on self-betrayal by Jodi Arndt

how the locker room scene in MSCL made fools of an entire generation of yearning women who learned to tell time with a broken clock

on the romanticization of men who have zero desire to know the women they claim to love but occasionally do something cute/look good in shearling

Is he fucking you for clout?

don't get it twisted, women have always elevated a man's status.

god is a woman in her full power

on Florence Welch, E Jean Carroll and my daughters

revisiting one milestone during another

twenty-one years on the mothership

support your local women artist(s)

a thank you note and a favor