motherhood

For Trolls, Not Even My Young Child Is Off Limits

This is what it's like to be a feminist on the Internet who also happens to be a mother.

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Baby On A Train: Flash Fiction

She knows you’re not supposed to call it an “it,” but she honestly can’t tell if it’s a boy or girl or . . . undecided.

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Depression Stole My Ability To Imagine A Different Tomorrow

I could tell my therapist that tomorrow I will eat toast for breakfast instead of a bagel, and technically I will have done what she's asked.

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Help! I'm Pregnant And Hate My New Body

I’m four months pregnant and already can’t bear the sight of my growing stomach. I'm worried I'm not eating enough and that scares me.

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Ravishly's Top 5 Reads Of The Week

Body image, BDSM, Zumba, and polyamory. Just another week at Ravishly . . .

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Confessions Of A Smut Scribe Turned Soccer Mom

You see, before I became a soccer mom, I was a sex writer. And a damn good one.

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Hunger: Flash Fiction

Fresh orange juice, milk, thick slices of ham, a block of cheese, a carton of eggs—her husband kept it this way should this moment arrive.

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I Owe My Life To My Mother's Abortion

Seven years before I was born, my mother made a decision that would change her life—and lead to mine.

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