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Ep. 2: When estrangement is the only safe option, with Your Own Mother
Listen now | For the second episode of the podcast, I spoke to an anonymous Substacker called Your Own Mother. In her newsletter, she offers beautiful…
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Review: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
A memoir in essays by Nicole Graev Lipson
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Things my mother taught me before she left me, vol. 3
A series on the surprise wins of an ambivalent mother
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Ep. 1: Breaking the cycle of bad mothers with Gina, my sister
Listen now | My central goal for the Bad Mothers podcast is to remove the guilt and shame many of us feel for creating boundaries with abusive parents.
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The unsurprising failures of Alice Munro, the mom
When estrangement is the only safe place
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December 2024

The Bad Mothers of 2024
If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that Bad Mothers refers to women who refuse to conform.
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Introducing the Bad Mothers podcast
Listen now | On the Bad Mothers podcast, we’ll dive deep into our maternal urges, or lack thereof.
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Do we need terms like "child-free" and "childless"?
More from my conversation with the author of Others Like Me, Nicole Louie
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Nicole Louie on being a woman without kids
The author of Others Like Me joined me for a candid conversation
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November 2024

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