HeyJaredLiz Field's Trip
Essays and opinion on politics, current events, history, and society.
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More action is needed to support Jane Doe (opens the original)
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CW: This article discusses sexual assault (SA).The past few days have made it impossible, as a 26-year local Ithacan, a SA survivor, a mom of three grown women raised in Ithaca, and a Lyft driver whose primary passengers are Cornell University students, faculty, or staff, to ignore the news about the Cornell 7.If you’re reading this, you probably already know about the alleged gang rape that took place at the Chi Phi fraternity in Ithaca in October 2024. Jane Doe, at the time a 20-year-old woman
The Endless War of 9/11 (opens the original)
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Summer 2001 was nice for my family—dare I say, even peaceful. I gave birth to my youngest daughter in the spring, and then my two older kids turned ten and three. Grandparents visited, we moved into a new (old) house, and life seemed set for our family. I was sleep-deprived, but happy. My kids were healthy, I wasn’t working outside the house, and I was married to a school teacher who worked part-time in the summers. We spent every afternoon at the public pool.Then, three months after my youngest
The ‘Invisible Sentence’ served by families of the incarcerated (opens the original)
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In 1991, at the height of the War on Drugs, my boyfriend was arrested for selling LSD. He was home with our 5-month-old daughter when the police raided our apartment, and I was in a college class in Chicago. He would end up getting twenty years in prison, missing his daughter’s entire childhood, and she and I would end up losing a partner and father.The War on Drugs was/is no joke. Technically it turned 55 this summer, but it reached its peak in the 1990s with the passing of the Clinton administ
My Substack AI policy (opens the original)
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If you want to read personal essays written by a human author, you’ve come to the right place.I don’t use AI in my personal writing. I didn’t use it to write my memoir, and I don’t use it to write my Substack posts. You can read more about my writing process in an article I wrote in April 2026: lizfield.substack.com/p/on-writing-a-memoir-in-the-age-of.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/imag
Healing from childhood sexual assault through data mining (opens the original)
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CW: This post contains descriptions of child sexual assault. If you or a loved one needs help, you can find resources at: https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/for-survivors-of-child-sexual-abuse/.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WMGP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff45f5195-eda3-46e3-bb8d-cfa9f60bb8ef_1593x1995.
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