HeyJaredOther Wise
Interviews with nonconformists on turning Otherness into power. Occasional essays on whatever's on my mind.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: "Don't wait until you're 80 to realize you're the star of your own movie." (opens the original)
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That Time I Tripped Balls with a Woman in the Woods and Met the Mother Source (opens the original)
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When your mother dies, so does the version of yourself that only existed when she was alive. I was lucky enough to be born to a mother who made me feel invincible, like I could be and do whatever I wanted. So when she died and took my Supergirl cape with her, it’s an understatement to say I was lost.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5BfK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F
Anti-Pout (opens the original)
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I’ve been told I’m “expressive” — a label I often flinched at, suspecting it meant I was too emotive and therefore the very opposite of cool.One time in college, a professor knew her PowerPoint had been scrambled because of my face: “Your face tells me these slides are out of sync,” she announced to the class, her back to the screen said slides were projecting onto.I’ve come to embrace my animated face, with brows that still furrow despite regular Botox.So while the world is enamored with the
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