L Maristatter
Christian feminist, unapologetic. Author of "Tiny Tin House," my debut novel. I love cats, books, and chocolate, in that order. Usually.
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On calling it what it is (opens the original)
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I had to sit on this column for a couple of days until I could start breathing again.I shouldn’t have to write about this. But it’s becoming clear that even in the sixty-three years I’ve been on this planet, if anything has changed for women, it’s that men feel increasingly entitled to our bodies and increasingly brazen in how they take us.In October of 2024, at a Cornell University frat party, a young man allegedly drugged a young woman with ketamine and raped her. He then messaged his frat bud
Radical Publishes TODAY! (opens the original)
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On saving the world (opens the original)
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Last night, I saved a spider. He was crawling along the wall, trying to be inconspicuous, but I spotted him and clapped a clear plastic cup over him and secured the opening with a paper plate and took him outside. Mom is my partner in mercy, helping out by cutting a paper plate in half so I could slide the flat edge under the cup without losing him. It’s a tricky business, catching a spider. I have to be very careful with the paper plate so I don’t pinch any little spider legs. And these frighte
On getting in the mood (opens the original)
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If you’re not feeling celebratory, I understand. Quite a few Substackers have already written about how their joy is tempered by grief on this, the 250th anniversary of our nation’s birth. How some of us may feel we have little to celebrate. How some of us are choosing to dial it down</
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