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Apr 2, 2025

How to Climb a Fourteener When You’re Afraid of Heights

Apr 2, 2025

Mar 19, 2025

Close Your Feet and Walk Away

Mar 19, 2025

Mar 12, 2025

Yellowstone

Mar 12, 2025

Mar 5, 2025

And Then The Moon

Mar 5, 2025

Feb 19, 2025

A Need for Hibernation

Feb 19, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

Soul Mate: A Definition

Feb 12, 2025

Feb 5, 2025

From Nashville to Maine With Love

Feb 5, 2025

Jan 22, 2025

Fingernails

Jan 22, 2025

Jan 15, 2025

Pressing Play

Jan 15, 2025

Jan 8, 2025

Finding Light

Jan 8, 2025

Dec 25, 2024

The Journey

Dec 25, 2024

Dec 18, 2024

I Earned My Stripes

Dec 18, 2024

Dec 11, 2024

Waterstones

Dec 11, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

Polar Solstice

Dec 4, 2024

Nov 20, 2024

Tears for Vivian

Nov 20, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Wedding Song

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 6, 2024

(W)hole

Nov 6, 2024

Oct 23, 2024

The Cost of Leaving

Oct 23, 2024

Oct 16, 2024

The Memorial

Oct 16, 2024

Oct 9, 2024

The Dress

Oct 9, 2024

Oct 2, 2024

Painted Brown

Oct 2, 2024

Sep 18, 2024

How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Girl?

Sep 18, 2024

Sep 11, 2024

Seeking, Listening, Echoing

Sep 11, 2024

Sep 4, 2024

Illumination

Sep 4, 2024

Aug 21, 2024

Eyes in the Dark

Aug 21, 2024

Aug 14, 2024

Valentine's Day Thoughts

Aug 14, 2024

Aug 7, 2024

Cold Water

Aug 7, 2024

Jul 24, 2024

The Weight of Her Womb

Jul 24, 2024

Jul 17, 2024

The Unbearably Long List of Joys

Jul 17, 2024

Jul 10, 2024

He Said I Should Move Back East-

Jul 10, 2024

Monthly Theme Essays

Mar 28, 2025

The Man With No Socks

Mar 28, 2025

Mar 27, 2025

The Emperor (Reversed)

Mar 27, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

Trail Mix

Mar 26, 2025

Mar 25, 2025

Oocyte Incompetence — Over, Easy

Mar 25, 2025

Mar 24, 2025

Rebellion

Mar 24, 2025

Feb 28, 2025

Fully Grown

Feb 28, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

Famous Last Words

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 26, 2025

What to Expect When You're Not Expecting

Feb 26, 2025

Feb 25, 2025

After the Coyotes Stopped Howling

Feb 25, 2025

Feb 24, 2025

The Awakening

Feb 24, 2025

Jan 31, 2025

Tipping Point

Jan 31, 2025

Jan 30, 2025

My Last Crush

Jan 30, 2025

Jan 29, 2025

Tents I've Tried to Sleep In

Jan 29, 2025

Jan 28, 2025

Claiming My ID

Jan 28, 2025

Jan 27, 2025

Team Player

Jan 27, 2025

Jan 3, 2025

In Bryan's Eyes

Jan 3, 2025

Jan 2, 2025

A Different Kind of Breakup

Jan 2, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

CHARLIE.DOCX

Jan 1, 2025

Dec 31, 2024

To Be or Not to Be a Badass

Dec 31, 2024

Dec 30, 2024

Recurring Nightmare

Dec 30, 2024

Nov 29, 2024

Her Road

Nov 29, 2024

Nov 28, 2024

The Sandbar Girls

Nov 28, 2024

Nov 27, 2024

Gambling on Friendship

Nov 27, 2024

Nov 26, 2024

Something Marginally Less Preposterous

Nov 26, 2024

Nov 25, 2024

A Golden Connection

Nov 25, 2024

Nov 1, 2024

Relentless

Nov 1, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

Unspoken

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 30, 2024

Show Me A Still Heart

Oct 30, 2024

Oct 29, 2024

The First Boy

Oct 29, 2024

Oct 28, 2024

The Passage

Oct 28, 2024

AMPLIFY

Dec 29, 2022

Looking Back to Move Forward: Featuring a Very Special Amplifier!

Dec 29, 2022

Dec 1, 2022

Amplify InBetween: The Second to Last

Dec 1, 2022

Nov 3, 2022

Shapers of a Movement: Movement through Radical Feminist Punk

Nov 3, 2022

Sep 29, 2022

Shapers of a Movement: Dorothy Stopford Price and the Fight for Community Health

Sep 29, 2022

Sep 1, 2022

Shapers of a Movement: The Impact of Women of Color and Nonbinary Folx in Organizing Spaces

Sep 1, 2022

Jul 28, 2022

Shapers of a Movement: When Women Strike Back

Jul 28, 2022

Jun 30, 2022

Amplify Introduction: Taking a Look at the Shapers of a Movement

Jun 30, 2022

May 26, 2022

Amplify InBetween: The Keepers of the Community

May 26, 2022

Apr 28, 2022

Sisterhood and the Many Identities of Pat Parker

Apr 28, 2022

Mar 31, 2022

Amplify InBetween: Women Who Reshaped Their Homelands

Mar 31, 2022

Feb 28, 2022

Rage Against the System: Sex Workers of the ECP Take on the Church, Racism, and Police Brutality

Feb 28, 2022

Jan 27, 2022

Anna Julia Cooper, The Black Liberation Feminist

Jan 27, 2022

Dec 30, 2021

Amplify InBetween: First in Class

Dec 30, 2021

Oct 28, 2021

The Poetic WarriHER, Janice Mirikitani

Oct 28, 2021

Sep 30, 2021

Amplify InBetween: Nachiyar, Seacole, and WarriHER Resources

Sep 30, 2021

Sep 10, 2021

The Meeting of Greatness: How the Trưng Sisters and Laskarina Bouboulina Changed Their Countries' History

Sep 10, 2021

Aug 26, 2021

Amplify InBetween: Four Revolutionary WarriHERs You Should Know

Aug 26, 2021

Jul 29, 2021

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Lead Stratgiest and Revolutionary Icon

Jul 29, 2021

Jun 29, 2021

AMPLIFY Introduction: Amplifying the Revolutionary WarriHers

Jun 29, 2021

Jun 3, 2021

AMPLIFY: Redefining Activism with Grace Lee Boggs

Jun 3, 2021

Apr 29, 2021

AMPLIFY: The Women of Greenham Common, Camping For Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

Apr 29, 2021

Mar 25, 2021

AMPLIFY: Soledad Estorach, Anarcha-Feminist Breaking Tradition in Times of War

Mar 25, 2021

Jan 28, 2021

AMPLIFY: The Lavender Menance, Disrupters of the Feminist Movement

Jan 28, 2021

Dec 31, 2020

AMPLIFY: Sigird Phyllis Stearner - The Revolutionary Scientist

Dec 31, 2020

Nov 26, 2020

AMPLIFY: The Women of the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike of 1881

Nov 26, 2020

Nov 2, 2020

AMPLIFY: Dorothy Roberts

Nov 2, 2020

Sep 17, 2020

AMPLIFY: Reiko Okuyama

Sep 17, 2020

Apr 23, 2020

AMPLIFY: Dr. Ruby Hirose

Apr 23, 2020

Feb 27, 2020

AMPLIFY: Winona LaDuke

Feb 27, 2020

Jan 23, 2020

AMPLIFY: Lucy Hicks Anderson

Jan 23, 2020

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