motherhood
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Girlhood, intimacy, and the discipline of desire There is a particular kind of story that repeats itself across women’s writing — not because it is copied, but because it is lived. Mona Awad’s Bunny, Emma Cline’s The Girls, Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, and Esperanza Hope Snyder’s Orange Wine are not in conversation by design, but by…
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Love stories are easy to dismiss. They’re often framed as soft or escapist — something we reach for when we don’t want to deal with the real world. But the real world right now feels anything but avoidable. It’s loud, isolating, and often cruel in ways that feel normalized. We’re encouraged to move quickly, take…