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Writing through fascism and fear, because parenting is political, silence is complicity, and our kids are watching. By Renee Niemann, author of The Handbook for the Recently Resisting.
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Before You Send Your Daughter to College, Ask What Happens If She Is Raped There (opens the original)
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This post is public, so feel free to share it.ShareMy daughter is a junior in high school, and I have a new question for every college she considers: What happens here if someone rapes my daughter?I don’t want to know what your Title IX webpage says will happen, what an admissions off
Twenty-One Years Ago Today, I Almost Died Because a Deaf Cat Peed on My Couch (opens the original)
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Twenty-one years ago today, I almost died because a deaf cat peed on my couch. Of course, that’s an oversimplification and not technically what happened, but stay with me.Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a giant fluffy white cat appeared on our doorstep. She looked like she had sashayed directly off a Fancy Feast commercial, with one blue eye, one green eye, magnificent white fur, and apparently nowhere else to go.Resist Like A Mother is a reader-supported publication. To receive new
AITA for Thinking My Friend Should Dump Her Creepy Boyfriend? (opens the original)
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I need some outside perspective on a situation with a friend because this has been going on for almost two years, and it has caused an unbelievable amount of drama in our larger friend group, and now her boyfriend is basically begging her to give him another chance.So here’s the deal: my friend started seeing this guy almost two years ago. They had been in a situationship for a while and then took a four-year break from each other. She was so much happier then. She was seeing this super smart wo
History Eventually Puts Even the Loudest Men in the Past Tense. (opens the original)
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Share Resist Like A MotherThere is a thought I have sometimes that brings me an almost embarrassing amount of comfort. One day, I won’t have to think about Donald Trump anymore. I don’t mean that I wish him dead. If anything, I long to see him brought to justice à la an American-style Nuremberg 2.0 of sorts.Do you want to know what I wish for? Relief. I think about the fact that Donald Trump is mortal, presi
I Loved My Baby. I Wasn’t Okay. These Are The Things Mothers Are Afraid to Say. (opens the original)
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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see a new baby?Think about it for a second, and I bet you start smiling. Perhaps hope and overwhelming love. Imagine those tiny fingers curled around yours. That intoxicating newborn smell. Perhaps you imagine looking down at this brand-new human and feeling the instantaneous love we have been promised… Read more
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