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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    The Most Feminist Thing You Can Do Is Raise Boys (opens the original)

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    That title was going to be the whole post. I wrote it last night before bed.But then this morning I thought maybe you don’t know what I mean when I say this. So here is what I mean:Raise them to respect a woman and her body. Raise them to be emotionally intelligent. Raise them to be courageous.Raise them to be __________________ (fill in the blank).I have been writing about raising boys for almost 12 years. About privilege, about identity, about what kind of men I hope to be raising. I think abo

  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Confessions, Vol. 7 - Whitney Goodman (opens the original)

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    has been in my orbit for nearly a decade. One of those internet friendships that started with a follow, turned into a coffee years ago and never really ended. She is a fellow native Portlander who has said yes to a lot of interesting things: fashion PR in New York, that often romanticized concept of shopkeep, consulting, real estate, and now three kids and a Substack called WM Goods that I genuinely look forward to finding in my inbox.I wanted to feature Whitney for a few reasons. One: her caree

  3. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Six Years on Substack and I Have Zero Tips for You (opens the original)

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    September marks six years on Substack, happy six years of click clacking away on my keyboard. I am not here to deliver a success story or a growth guide behind the pay-wall. I am here with my honest POV on what six years of writing in public has actually taught me, and why I continue to write and show-up.But let's level set: I am still figuring out what hitting six years of writing here feels like. Is it an achievement? An accomplishment? A milestone? None of that really. But I do feel like it i

  4. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    Seventeen Variables, Zero Answers (opens the original)

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    Hi from the first full week of ‘real life’ in Portland. It is not technically summer anymore but it is very much still summer if you ask me.I have written openly about the fact that I don't have a master plan. No career map, no vision board. And this week feels like the truest interpretation of that. But also a reminder that you make your own rules. You have autonomy if you want it. You can blow up your life if you want to. And sometimes that looks like this.<div class="captio

  5. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Summer isn’t over (opens the original)

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    It could have been the looming wildfire smoke in the distance or maybe it was just the actual buzzkill of the Vogue podcast and editor Chloe Malle in my ear trying to tell me that summer was over. But either way this moment got me fired up. I walked home faster, as if to not waste another moment of this “almost over” summer.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cW4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.

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