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Announcing Electric Lit’s #ReadMoreWomen Campaign

Announcing Electric Lit’s #ReadMoreWomen Campaign

It’s the easiest way to diversify your reading habits—plus, you can get this cool new tote bag about it
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Electric Literature
46 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2018

46 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2018

Someday we’ll have a 46th president, but until then, here are 46 other things to look forward to
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R.O. Kwon
What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’

What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’

The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ brings up big questions about who we believe and why
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Jane Dykema
20 Authors I Don’t Have to Read Because I’ve Dated Men for 16 Years

20 Authors I Don’t Have to Read Because I’ve Dated Men for 16 Years

If you’ve spent enough time around dudes, you’ve BASICALLY read these
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Helena Fitzgerald
How Audre Lorde Helped Me Reclaim My Voice

How Audre Lorde Helped Me Reclaim My Voice

My white classmates were walking all over me, until the course readings gave me the tools to talk back
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Dianca London
We Need to Start Taking Young Women’s Love Stories Seriously

We Need to Start Taking Young Women’s Love Stories Seriously

Why do I continue to feel embarrassed about writing “feminine” fiction?
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Marian Crotty
Chelsey Johnson’s ‘Stray City’ Deals with Queer Reality, Not Queer Theory

Chelsey Johnson’s ‘Stray City’ Deals with Queer Reality, Not Queer Theory

As a queer woman who sometimes has relationships with men, I appreciated seeing my experience on the page
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Emma Eisenberg
The Asian American Women Writers Who Are Going to Change the World

The Asian American Women Writers Who Are Going to Change the World

V.V. Ganeshananthan, Porochista Khakpour, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Esmé Weijun Wang discuss writing, activism and community
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R.O. Kwon
Reading About the Worst Parts of Motherhood Makes Me Less Afraid

Reading About the Worst Parts of Motherhood Makes Me Less Afraid

Meaghan O’Connell’s ‘And Now We Have Everything’ doesn’t sugarcoat pregnancy or parenting, and that’s why I love it
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Rae Nudson
‘Circe’ Shows Us How Storytelling Is Power—And How That Power Can Be Seized

‘Circe’ Shows Us How Storytelling Is Power—And How That Power Can Be Seized

The latest book to give voice to the silent women of the canon, Madeline Miller’s novel subverts the masculine norms of epic adventure
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Chelsea Leu
I Saw Myself in Meg Murry Even Before She Looked Like Me

I Saw Myself in Meg Murry Even Before She Looked Like Me

Ava DuVernay’s film of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ makes me wonder: What does it mean to identify with a character?
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Tajja Isen
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