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  1. parenthood
    Instagram, My 3-Year-Old Daughter, and MeAm I actually instilling some meaningful lesson about confidence? Or am I just teaching her how to lie?
    By Carla Bruce-Eddings
  2. first person
    Our Sister BeckyWhat if the doctors had listened to her?
    By Kate Beaton
  3. #metoo
    What I Know About Jian GhomeshiIt’s exactly what his new essay is trying to make us forget.
    By Ruth Spencer
  4. first person
    My 6-Year-Old Thinks My Disability Is Boring“Why does your mom walk like that?” a girl his age asked.
    By Chloé Cooper Jones
  5. first person
    I Know Exactly How to Pass the Postpartum Depression QuizFive minutes in the waiting room is all it takes.
    By Meaghan O'Connell
  6. work
    I Refused to Write Steve Bannon’s Bio for The New Yorker FestivalIt’s the only time I’ve ever said no to a task at work.
    By Hilary Leichter
  7. first person
    Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her ChildrenNo other transition in my life has shocked me more.
    By Lydia Kiesling
  8. first person
    The Kinds of Monsters I Used to DateIt’s hardest to contend with men whose main focus is to not seem like a monster.
    By Caragh Poh
  9. first person
    How to Tell the Bad Men From the Good MenIt wasn’t so simple at age 18, writes Caitlin Moran.
    By Caitlin Moran
  10. first person
    Ghost KnifeSometimes I feel a knife floating above my right shoulder. I know it’s not real, but I want to know what it means.
    By Ashleigh Young
  13. first person
    Novelist Deborah Levy Remembers Her Fearless Mother’s Last DaysIn this excerpt from her new memoir, The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy recounts her fearless mother’s life and death.
    By Deborah Levy
  14. journeys
    The Truly Magical Thing About Magic Mike Live in Las VegasIt’s not the abs. It’s the friendship.
    By Leah Beckmann
  15. father's day
    I Had No Idea What Fatherhood Was Going to be LikeWhat was it about the baby that was so time-consuming, so life-consuming?
    By Keith Gessen
  16. tributes
    Remembering the Magic of Kate SpadeWorking in her store felt like being invited into a dreamed-up world.
    By Stella Bugbee
  17. new mom
    The Identity Transformation of Becoming a MomPsychologists call it “matrescence.”
    By Erin Zimmerman
  18. new mom
    Three Dads on Sex With New Moms“The downward spiral of our sex life does make me frustrated with the marriage and pretty angry — not at her, but at the situation.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  19. first person
    Mourning My Mother Through the Bags She Left BehindMy style turned out to be not so different from hers.
    By Kristen Martin
  20. new mom
    What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part IV“Once I crossed some sort of medical threshold of birth security, I felt expansive and powerful.”
    By Maya Pindyck
  21. remembrances
    Gail Sheehy: What Tom Wolfe Taught Me About Reporting“You have to be brave.”
    By Gail Sheehy
  22. new mom
    What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part III“I craved peach gummy candies from the gas station, and ate them by the bagful.”
    By J. Courtney Sullivan
  25. first person
    Dressing for Church Taught Me Everything I Know About Fashion“Sunday best” means more than the Met Gala to me.
    By Lindsay Peoples
  26. new mom
    What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part II“I was hugely with child — with children — and the dome of my belly measured weeks ahead of a singleton pregnancy.”
    By Vanessa Hua
  27. new mom
    What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part I“Sometimes I felt enormously beautiful, like Venus herself arising from the sea, and sometimes I felt just enormous.”
    By Lydia Kiesling
  28. skin care
    I Love Putting Chemicals on My FaceBut recently, I got pregnant.
    By Rebecca Harrington
  29. self reflection
    Tattoos Are About Change“Why would you do that to your body?” “That’s not going to look good at 70.” These are the things strange men say to tattooed women.
    By Rachel Jepsen
  30. first person
    The Doctor Is a Woman: Sloane Crosley Considers the Prospect of ParenthoodIn this essay from her new book Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley reckons with what the future holds.
    By Sloane Crosley
  31. sex negative
    The Time I Almost Lost My Job for Having Sex at Work“I was really into it — the little hint of danger was exciting. That’s when I heard the front door open.”
    By Anonymous as told to Priscilla Pine
  32. women of the world
    What It’s Like to Be a Legal Sex Worker in New Zealand“Because my work is legal, if anything goes wrong, the police have to help.”
    By Bubbles as told to Alexa Tsoulis Reay
  33. how to raise a boy
    The Stories My Sons and I ShareAbout Chloe Kim, Dude Perfect, Tiger Parents, and our own family.
    By Ed Park
  34. married women
    What Happens When a Married Woman Goes on Tinder?I didn’t know what to expect. What I found made me want more.
    By Kim Brooks
  37. how to raise a boy
    My Son Loves GunsHow much about violence do I want him to understand?
    By Alden Jones
  38. first person
    Before I Embraced My Brownness, I Tried to Lighten My SkinThe whitener really worked, but at what cost?
    By Melissa Pandika
  39. evangelicalism
    What It’s Like To Experience Gay Conversion Therapy“The pastor was inches away from my face, screaming for the demon to get out.”
    By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
  40. first person
    TransitionMy surgeries were a bridge across realities, a spirit customizing its vessel to reflect its nature.
    By Akwaeke Emezi
  41. get a hobby
    Do You Like Under the Tuscan Sun? Drinking Wine? Take Up Pasta MakingI roll and I knead. I become a craftsman. I am the Geppetto of pasta.
    By Kara Brown
  42. power
    I Started the Media Men ListMy name is Moira Donegan.
    By Moira Donegan
  43. appreciations
    The New Essence Is a Salon-Chair Dream Come TrueThe return of all-black ownership of the magazine is coming at exactly the right time.
    By Shamira Ibrahim
  44. first person
    The Gift of LonelinessA single woman’s secret to surviving the holiday season alone.
    By Lisa Miller
  45. literature
    What I Learned After Lorin Stein Published My StoryA lesson in power, sex, and fiction.
    By Alexandra Kleeman
  46. hobbies
    The Time-Wasting Magic of Online Real Estate Listings“Redfin is Tinder for married people,” as one friend put it.
    By Meaghan O'Connell
  49. sex ed
    Men Don’t Get to Decide What Counts As ‘Sex’Does America know what sex is? After the past week, I’m not so sure.
    By Liz Meriwether
  50. tv
    On Loving and Hating Louis C.K.It was always a percentages game with him.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld
  51. Why I Haven’t Said #MeTooI didn’t have a choice then, but I have one now.
    By Anonymous
  52. first person
    More Than Vineyards Were Lost in the California FiresLast month, I watched the place I’m from burn down.
    By Aja Gabel
  53. compromises
    The Things I Shrugged Off Then, Horrify Me Now“I’m not ashamed about wanting a career, but I can’t look back at some of my actions without wincing.”
    By Lizzie O'Leary
  54. sex negative
    Worst Sex Ever: ‘The Biggest Dick I’d Ever Seen’“I told my colleague that I had to cut out early to go see a man about his very large dick. It was my Mount Everest, and I intended to climb it.”
    As told to Priscilla Pine
  55. nostalgia
    Farewell to the Most Sparkly Sacred Place in New YorkLong before crystals were trendy, the Hall of Gems and Minerals was a haven for kids.
    By Lucy Boyle
  56. motherhood
    What My Daughter Taught Me About Honoring the DeadBefore I became a mom, I didn’t even know where my father was buried.
    By Wendy Spero
  57. first person
    My Fateful Year Working For Anne KleinDonna Karan on getting fired, and rehired, by her “other mother.”
    By Donna Karan, as told to Amy Larocca
  58. science experiments
    Can You Biohack Your Fertility?One Silicon Valley doctor’s pursuit of the Holy Grail: a way to predict the future.
    By Alex Morris
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