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I was a child bride. It’s time to stop teaching young girls to stay sweet.

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Girls in my cult were drilled, above all else, to give up our sense of selves. By Tamara MC

August 10, 2022 Culture

How to teach our sons that birth control is their responsibility too

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As a teenager, I absorbed the message that birth control revolved around the female body. By Billy Kilgore

July 14, 2022 Culture

I realized I used the wrong pronouns. This is what happened next.

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“If you go back,” my twelve-year-old said, “say I’m sorry *if* I mis-gendered you.” By Kim Anton

June 23, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why our daughters need more heroes like Eleven

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Somewhere deep down, these girls sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel. By Nan Mooney

May 27, 2022 Culture

Let kids wear what they want. It matters more than ever.

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We owe our children safe spaces to adorn themselves with color and material and fit and comfort as they decide. By Kristen H. McLeod

March 10, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How is it that we’re still asking what stay-at-home moms do all day?

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Having choices, not just careers, is fundamental to feminism. By Liz Sjaastad

February 16, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The dreaded question for women like me, what do you do for a living?

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There’s a certain emotional security that comes with having a glamorous job title. By Chiazo Obiudu

October 18, 2021 Culture

Q&A: You Don’t Have to Be Everything

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Talking to Diana Whitney about her collection of poems for girls becoming themselves. By Daisy Florin

May 13, 2021 Books, Culture

After years of rejecting a beauty regime, this is why I finally embraced one

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My mother was praised her whole life for her beauty; I preferred praise for my mind. By Emily Franklin

May 5, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

I was pregnant when I confronted sexual violence for the first time

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It took growing another being inside of me—becoming two—to learn to truly stand up for myself. By Rebecca Kling

February 10, 2021 Culture

My guy friend grabbed my butt, what should I have done?

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I’ve been told more times than I can count not to make a big deal out of things, that the man was only kidding. By Corie Adjmi

February 2, 2021 Culture

Watching Bridgerton with my daughter was worth the embarrassment

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Viewing the show together became a rite of passage for both of us. By Lori Tucker-Sullivan

January 27, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How to empower our daughters to find pleasure

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It’s your vagina, you’re allowed to love it all you want. By Ellen Hagan

January 25, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

This is what happened when my husband wouldn’t do the dishes

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Regardless of who works outside of the home, men do less housework than women. And COVID has made the imbalance worse. By Molly Winter

January 13, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | It’s time to drop the Karen stereotype

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Karen is the internet equivalent to the age-old double standard that a man who is vocal is assertive but when it’s a woman she’s a shrew. By Laura Catherine Hanby Hudgens

July 27, 2020 Culture

Balancing feminism with caring about what I look like

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I’ve raised my daughter to believe that a preoccupation with one’s appearance is trivial, but I’m a traitor to the cause. By Rebecca Knight

May 13, 2020 Culture

This Mother’s Day, get the gift of more time

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Both you and your partner have only 24 hours in a day and each of those hours holds equal value. By Eve Rodksy

May 9, 2020 Books, Culture

I wanted a girl, but it’s so hard

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What would I have done if her shorts got shorter, tops dipped lower? If she learned to sharpen her body like a tool? By Rica Keenum

April 29, 2020 Culture

A man asked me to smile, this is what I think about it

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I’m solidly in midlife now, and I have been handing out smiles to men upon request for decades. By Mary Janevic

March 31, 2020 Culture

Glennon Doyle on why teen girls don’t think for themselves

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When I ask if they’re hungry, the girls are silent at first. Then each looks to a friend’s face to discover the answer. By Glennon Doyle

March 13, 2020 Books, Culture

My child wanted to be a boy

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I’m surprised by how many moms give me the thumbs-up for “letting” my daughter be a pirate. By Mimi Lemay

December 11, 2019 Books, Culture

Meeting my transgender daughter for the first time

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“What did you expect, Mom?” said my kid, laughing now, in her same boy-voice she’s always had. By Joanna Franklin Bell

November 27, 2019 Culture

Accepting my friend’s son when she can’t

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“Ryan,” I say. “If you ever want to play with the girl dolls, we have them. In this house, you can play with whatever you want.” By Ann Wainwright

October 11, 2019 Culture

Our family took a stand on our school’s dress code

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“No skinny pants” was a rule we could not and did not obey. Instead, we pulled our children out of the school. By Jennie Burke

October 2, 2019 Culture

Pink shinguards for my son. Why did I care?

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I hesitated because I am a product of my society, just like everyone else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

May 29, 2019 Culture, Family

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