HeyJaredMegan Burke, PhD
Philosopher, writer, ex-tenured professor. I'm into relational ethics, existentialism, phenomenology, feminism, queer possibilities, and going slow in these increasingly urgent and hectic times. I'm here to think, write, and create community slow reads!
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The Second Sex: Week 31 (opens the original)
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Hello slow readers!This is a weekly post for the 2026 year-long slow read of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. This week we’re finishing in Chapter 2: The Girl of Part One: Formative Years in Volume II: Lived Experience —US Knopf 2010 Hardcover, pgs. 359-382.First Line: “Man dazzles yet frightens her.”Last Line: “This is the new stage we must now consider.”Reading Schedule</spa
Against Marriage (opens the original)
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This essay grew out of preparing for this week’s Slow Read of The Second Sex. A key feature of Beauvoir’s account in Volume II is how girls are taught to orient their lives toward (hetero) marriage. It had me thinking about how marriage appears in and around me—and about how her work has been one source of personal inspo for why I have, and still do, refuse the institution. At any rate, here’s a window into what came up for me.<
The Second Sex: Week 30 (opens the original)
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Hello slow readers!This is a weekly post for the 2026 year-long slow read of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. This week we’re starting in Chapter 2: The Girl of Part One: Formative Years in Volume II: Lived Experience —US Knopf 2010 Hardcover, pgs. 341-359.First Line: “Throughout her childhood, the little girl was bullied and mutilated…”Last Line: “She is destined for man, she knows it, and she wants a normal and complete woman’s destiny.”<a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https
The Second Sex: Week 29 (opens the original)
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Hello slow readers!This is a weekly post for the 2026 year-long slow read of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. This week we’re concluding in Chapter 1: Childhood of Part One: Formative Years in Volume II: Lived Experience —US Knopf 2010 Hardcover, pgs. 296-340.First Line: “Granted, boys too at puberty feel their body as an embarrassing presence...”Last Line: “She makes her way toward the future wounded, shamed, worried, and guilty.”<a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://memyse
The Second Sex: Week 28 (opens the original)
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Hello slow readers!This is a weekly post for the 2026 year-long slow read of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. This week we’re still in Chapter 1: Childhood of Part One: Formative Years in Volume II: Lived Experience —US Knopf 2010 Hardcover, pgs. 296-329First Line: “In her early years, she resigns herself to this lot without much difficulty.”Last Line: “…menstrual periods inspire horror in adolescent girls because they thrust them into an inferior and damaged category.”<p class="butt
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