Essays

Toshiko Okanoue: Home in an Age of Fragmentation

by Micaela Brinsley

Art Beyond Genius: On Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

by Micaela Brinsley

Doors into the Present: Dorothea Tanning and the Art of Becoming

by Micaela Brinsley

On Grete Stern: Behind the Eye of the Camera

by Micaela Brinsley

On Naudline Pierre: Rendering an Ephemeral Self

by Micaela Brinsley

Helen Adam and the Grue: Collage, Rhyme, and the Occult Imagination

by Alexia Marmara

Méret Oppenheim: Fame and the Myth of Aging

by Micaela Brinsley

Lost & Found

Johanna Beyer and Q Lazzarus: Women Erased, Women Reclaimed

by Alexia Marmara

Imagination

Leonora Carrington: The Moments Before a Legacy

by Micaela Brinsley

Exploring Art

Exploring art as friendship: a possible approach

by Micaela Brinsley

Here’s Exactly What’s Wrong With the Phrase ‘Calm Down’

by Jess Saporito

Betrayed by Carmen Mola: What We Lose When a Successful Female Author Turns Out to Be Three Men

by Mina Samuels

Essay by Agathe Snow: “Just to Be Sure and Absolutely Certain”

by The AWT Editors

The Power of Restraint: What “WandaVision” Can Teach Us About Overcoming Challenges

by Mina Samuels

Why Is Breastfeeding So Hard?

by Rachel Hurn

Splitting Hairs: Historical Styles and Angst Over Lockdown Haircuts

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Entrepreneurship

Life as a Small Business Owner During COVID

by Nicole Skibola

Get Me to Greece: Travel Missteps and Personal Footholds Abroad

by Emily Alesandrini

That Blow-Your-Mind-Kind-Of-High

by Elizabeth Karp-Evans

The ‘Fairer Sex’? Not Always

by Jane Madembo

The Magic and True Meaning of Hysteria

by Allie Rowbottom

In Defense of the Disney Princess

by Lily-Hayes Kaufman

A Father’s Gift: The Photographic Eye

by Sara Afzal

Can a Woman Over 50 Magically Recreate Herself?

by Dr. Cecilia Dintino

Overseas Romances: Why Do We Fall So Easily When We Travel?

by AnnaMarie Houlis

Why All Men Should Be Feminists (According to a Male Feminist)

by Robert Franken

Remembering the Architecture of Anne Tyng in the Age of Information

by Sylvia Gindick

Rough Terrain: My Himalayan Trek with a Female Guide

by AnnaMarie Houlis

Why Are People So Angry Miss America Is Losing Its Swimsuit Competition?

by Allison Geller

Kate Spade’s Red Scarf

by Tawny Lara

Losing My Writing Soulmate

by Genevieve Walker

When A Friendship Suffocates You

by Sara DeLozier

Confessing to Being a Bad Friend

by Leigh Lucas

What I Learned From Attending the Women’s March in Rome

by Jess Saporito

What Millennial Women Can Learn From “The Golden Girls”

by Margaret Williamson Bechtold

How the #MeToo Movement Helped Me Recognize My Emotional Abuse

by The AWT Editors

On Clara Bow and Hollywood’s Impossible Standards

by Kate Harveston

Exclusives

“My Decors” by Joyce Johnson

by Joyce Johnson

Why Taking Care of Ourselves Is More Important Than Ever Before

by Caroline Wachsmuth

How I Came to Terms With PMDD

by Isabel Sullivan

Why We Need More Female Music Fans

by Kat Harding

The Gift of Freedom: How Liberating Another Helped Me Liberate Myself

by The AWT Editors

What Being a Sex-Abuse Survivor Taught Me About Motherhood

by Crystal M. R. Turner

How I Became Polyamorous and Why I Want to Tell the World About It

by Alexandra LaPlante

Why We Need an All-Black Press

by Clarene Mitchell

What a Recent Health Scare Taught Me About Natural Healing

by Elle Simon

Talking About PMS Is a Feminist Act

by Yin Q.

Hot Mess in Distress: Why We Love to Hate on Female Celebrities

by Sara DeLozier

How Trying to Assimilate Helped Me Find My Latina Identity

by Karen Vidangos

How Design is Enabling Social Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East

by Sanjana Paramhans

What I Learned From Having Student Debt

by The AWT Editors

How Student Debt Changed My American Dream

by Elizabeth Saetta

The Top of the End: Doling Out Anal Sex

by Yin Q.

How a Free Education Shaped My Life

by Frida Oskarsdottir

Why “Wendy and Lucy” is Michelle Williams’ Most Desperate Movie

by Avery Stone

How I Turned My Love of Storytelling Into a Business

by Erin Bagwell

Birth Control Took Over My Life

by Kate Rawley

Getting Off the Grid: A Re-Examination of the Writer’s Cabin

by Allison Geller

The Fight to Make It as a First-Generation American

by Sara Afzal

11 Money

The Floridian Underbelly: A Review of Sarah Gerard's “Sunshine State”

by Leigh Lucas

Getting Laid Off From My Job Led To My Biggest Transformation Yet

by Alena Hall

The Little Girl & The Single Mom: “The Little Prince” in the 21st Century

by K.T. Billey

Biking the Big Easy: How I was Freed by the Very Thing That Scared Me

by Amy Gall

Fighting for the Lady Vols: Pat Summitt’s Legacy Lives On

by Sara DeLozier

The Burning Season

by Ruthanne Minoru

What Losing a Friend Taught Me About Feminism

by Frida Oskarsdottir

Yoked: How a Homesteading Woman Reconsidered the Meaning of Bodies

by Gretchen Gordon

The Important Lesson My Roommate Taught Me

by Isabel Sullivan

What I Learned From My Adult Acne

by Sara DeLozier

Two Days in Tasmania: Diary of a “Body Landscape” Retreat

by Ingrid Reynolds

Do We Ever Escape "The Talk"?

by Frida Oskarsdottir

My Hairy Legs and Me: A Puberty Story

by Gabrielle Sierra

Playing Dress-Up Was My Job … So Who Was I?

by Lisa Grace Hennessy

How I Learned the Study of Light

by Renata Fuller

Community Article

I Climbed Kilimanjaro and it Changed My Life

by Renata Fuller

Community Article

“Too Pretty For This Shit”: On Being a Female Artist

by Aimee Gilmore

From Homeless Shelter to NY Success Story

by Lisa Marie Basile

The Luxury of Supporting Myself

by Jess Ramalhete

The Strangest Thing

by Katie McDonough

Entrepreneurship

How I Started My Own Family Film Business

by Jamie Yuenger

How Breaking My Engagement Helped Me Find Myself

by Saira Khan

Refugees of the Mediterranean: Reflections of a Greek Cypriot

by Olga Michael

Life Under ISIS and the Choice to Fight It

by Maysaa Jaber

05 Future

How a Simple Question Can Change Your View of the Future

by Rebecca Pohl

What I Learned as a Woman Traveling Alone

by Jess Saporito

What Swiping Right Taught Me About Love

by Sara DeLozier

The Complexity of Simplicity: Aesthetic Culture

by Genevieve Walker

Minimalism as Restraint

by Genevieve Walker

03 Minimalism

Simple Gestures: Saying Sorry

by Genevieve Walker

02 Anxiety

I Have No Regrets—How Creative Leaps Shape Careers

by Irene Huhulea

God’s Gift: The Lessons Motherhood Taught Me

by The AWT Editors

07 Mothers & Grandmothers

Becoming “Mama”: Nurturing Identity Through Gender-Diverse Parenting

by Coco C. Lam

The Only Child Box

by Sara Afzal

07 Mothers & Grandmothers

My Legacy as a Moroccan Woman

by Salima Yacoubi Soussane

Hot Flashes Are the Least of It: Mary Ruefle’s Essay on Menopause

by Rachel Hurn

From Tehran to Tehrangeles: Iranian Women’s Rejection of Body Hair

by Sara Afzal

07 Mothers & Grandmothers

What We Learned From “The Golden Girls”

by Irene Huhulea

There’s Nothing Surprising About Maria Sharapova’s Doping Scandal

by Irene Huhulea

06 Rejection

This Is Me: How Chronic Illness Taught Me to Stop Hiding

by Whitney Curry Wimbish

The time I realized my hair defies gravity

by Taryn Finley

The Outside View: How Rejection and Failure Can Bring Us Back to Life

by Sarah Todd

03 Minimalism

Spatial Reasoning: Gender, History and Minimalist Spaces

by Dora Vanette

Reunion on the Road [Randi's Wanderings, Part 3]

by Randi Delano

A Lot to Learn in Rural Cambodia [Randi’s Wanderings, Part 2]

by Randi Delano

Bodies, Books and the Art of Self-Criticism

by Julia Gronnevet

How to Leave New York [Randi’s Wanderings, Part 1]

by Randi Delano

Anna Marie’s Great Tech Adventure: Part 3

by Anna Marie Clifton

Anna Marie’s Great Tech Adventure: Part 2

by Anna Marie Clifton

Anna Marie’s Great Tech Adventure: Part 1

by Anna Marie Clifton

How to Make a Magazine

by The AWT Editors