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We often assume that intimacy guarantees understanding—that sharing a roof, a bed, a life should make perspectives converge. What a fantasy.
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The first night home from the hospital, I moved slowly toward the toilet, my vulva aching with every step. As I bent my knees, urine surged out without warning, splashing over the seat and pooling across the tile. I froze, and then slowly sat on the toilet seat.
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We need mothers in workplaces, because--new essay--Only a Mother Knows: on standpoint, care, and limits of knowledge and understanding.
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Daughter: Everybody loves everybody in this family!
Ryan: I'll teach you how to write that in predicate logic when you turn 7.
Me: For all x... Do?
Ryan: We don't use the do operator here.
Me: Except for between Dad and Mom?
Ryan:
When your child says you're not a very good mom.
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Motherhood.
Each choice I made to give up my own opportunities so that we can keep together as a family was obvious at the time, but inch by inch, they took away my career, identity, and the worst of all: confidence.
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When my toddler said I'm not a very good mom...
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"Some schools educated students; mine manufactured them."
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"Motherhood feels like a slow disappearance—of sleep, solitude, even air. But in that disappearing, something else expands: the number of hearts beating because of you."
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"Meritocracy is an illusion, a myth, a mechanism to trick us working-class apes into working harder for those who can tell good stories."
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"It takes something special to make New York subway say 'Don’t be someone’s subway story.'"
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“When you’re employed, you don’t care about the tangible returns of the work you do. You get paid. That’s all you need to know.”
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"... he lost most of his teeth—toothache after toothache—because it pained him even more to pay to visit a dentist."
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It's hard to make a difference when people Google you and only find Bluesky posts.
