This week in my newsletter, a graphic essay by @aubreyhirsch about the consequences of (not so) casual sexual assault. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/Zw3I50QJsuZ
Today is publication day for the second piece in Roxane Gay Presents, my series of longform essays in partnership with @everand_us. This month features “You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions” by Randa Jarrar (@rajarrar), a piece by a consummate storyteller.
Across 33 sections, Randa writes about getting pregnant at 18, the rupture it created in her family, and how she raised her young son into a young man as a single mother. It’s also the story of how Randa raised herself into the writer and woman she is today.
I started reading Randa’s writing many years ago and once I started reading, I was hooked. She has the ability to make everything she writes about interesting and often poignant; she projects strength alongside vulnerability, courage alongside fear, and these characteristics also shape this work. She defies expectations for what motherhood can look like, and is, at times, delightfully irreverent. This piece offers us the greatest of gifts: an instruction manual on how to be apologetically human.
Randa’s award-winning, widely-published work, which includes three books, explores Palestinian-American identity, the complexities of home as part of a displaced people, single parenting, and living a radical creative life. She is also a comedian, performer, filmmaker, organizer, and activist.
You can find a link to Randa’s work as an audiobook or ebook here or in my stories: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/708718099/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-You-Are-a-Teen-Mom-Instructions
Today is publication day for the second piece in Roxane Gay Presents, my series of longform essays in partnership with @everand_us. This month features “You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions” by Randa Jarrar (@rajarrar), a piece by a consummate storyteller.
Across 33 sections, Randa writes about getting pregnant at 18, the rupture it created in her family, and how she raised her young son into a young man as a single mother. It’s also the story of how Randa raised herself into the writer and woman she is today.
I started reading Randa’s writing many years ago and once I started reading, I was hooked. She has the ability to make everything she writes about interesting and often poignant; she projects strength alongside vulnerability, courage alongside fear, and these characteristics also shape this work. She defies expectations for what motherhood can look like, and is, at times, delightfully irreverent. This piece offers us the greatest of gifts: an instruction manual on how to be apologetically human.
Randa’s award-winning, widely-published work, which includes three books, explores Palestinian-American identity, the complexities of home as part of a displaced people, single parenting, and living a radical creative life. She is also a comedian, performer, filmmaker, organizer, and activist.
You can find a link to Randa’s work as an audiobook or ebook here or in my stories: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/708718099/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-You-Are-a-Teen-Mom-Instructions
Today is publication day for the second piece in Roxane Gay Presents, my series of longform essays in partnership with @everand_us. This month features “You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions” by Randa Jarrar (@rajarrar), a piece by a consummate storyteller.
Across 33 sections, Randa writes about getting pregnant at 18, the rupture it created in her family, and how she raised her young son into a young man as a single mother. It’s also the story of how Randa raised herself into the writer and woman she is today.
I started reading Randa’s writing many years ago and once I started reading, I was hooked. She has the ability to make everything she writes about interesting and often poignant; she projects strength alongside vulnerability, courage alongside fear, and these characteristics also shape this work. She defies expectations for what motherhood can look like, and is, at times, delightfully irreverent. This piece offers us the greatest of gifts: an instruction manual on how to be apologetically human.
Randa’s award-winning, widely-published work, which includes three books, explores Palestinian-American identity, the complexities of home as part of a displaced people, single parenting, and living a radical creative life. She is also a comedian, performer, filmmaker, organizer, and activist.
You can find a link to Randa’s work as an audiobook or ebook here or in my stories: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/708718099/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-You-Are-a-Teen-Mom-Instructions
Today is publication day for the second piece in Roxane Gay Presents, my series of longform essays in partnership with @everand_us. This month features “You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions” by Randa Jarrar (@rajarrar), a piece by a consummate storyteller.
Across 33 sections, Randa writes about getting pregnant at 18, the rupture it created in her family, and how she raised her young son into a young man as a single mother. It’s also the story of how Randa raised herself into the writer and woman she is today.
I started reading Randa’s writing many years ago and once I started reading, I was hooked. She has the ability to make everything she writes about interesting and often poignant; she projects strength alongside vulnerability, courage alongside fear, and these characteristics also shape this work. She defies expectations for what motherhood can look like, and is, at times, delightfully irreverent. This piece offers us the greatest of gifts: an instruction manual on how to be apologetically human.
Randa’s award-winning, widely-published work, which includes three books, explores Palestinian-American identity, the complexities of home as part of a displaced people, single parenting, and living a radical creative life. She is also a comedian, performer, filmmaker, organizer, and activist.
You can find a link to Randa’s work as an audiobook or ebook here or in my stories: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/708718099/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-You-Are-a-Teen-Mom-Instructions
Today is publication day for the second piece in Roxane Gay Presents, my series of longform essays in partnership with @everand_us. This month features “You Are a Teen Mom: Instructions” by Randa Jarrar (@rajarrar), a piece by a consummate storyteller.
Across 33 sections, Randa writes about getting pregnant at 18, the rupture it created in her family, and how she raised her young son into a young man as a single mother. It’s also the story of how Randa raised herself into the writer and woman she is today.
I started reading Randa’s writing many years ago and once I started reading, I was hooked. She has the ability to make everything she writes about interesting and often poignant; she projects strength alongside vulnerability, courage alongside fear, and these characteristics also shape this work. She defies expectations for what motherhood can look like, and is, at times, delightfully irreverent. This piece offers us the greatest of gifts: an instruction manual on how to be apologetically human.
Randa’s award-winning, widely-published work, which includes three books, explores Palestinian-American identity, the complexities of home as part of a displaced people, single parenting, and living a radical creative life. She is also a comedian, performer, filmmaker, organizer, and activist.
You can find a link to Randa’s work as an audiobook or ebook here or in my stories: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/708718099/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-You-Are-a-Teen-Mom-Instructions
A new book/guide, out 6/18/2024. Co-authored with Meg Pillow (@megpillow77) and with illustrations by Aurélia Durand (@4ur3lia). DO THE WORK will give readers a framework for better understanding power and how it shapes our lives and our communities. Pre-order at this link or at the link in my stories: https://geni.us/DoTheWork_Book
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. I hope you’ll join our discussion about this powerful novel at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion later this month. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-audacious-book-club-wandering
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a lovely essay by Vartan Koumrouyan about family, history, and the lure of childhood memories and how they are a refuge and an escape in the shadow of war. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/XIBl50QSs4v
Next week in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. Register to join us on March 21 at 8 p.m. ET at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/sR6L50QUH0T
Our second book for The Audacious Book Club this month is With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (@fattery12). I hope you’ll join our discussion about this fantastic poetry collection at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion on May 21st. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-audacious-book-club-with-my-back
New Work Friend featuring a manager making difficult decisions with unanticipated consequences, a person who disagrees with a colleague’s personal yet political choice, a woman who doesn’t want to have to play games to do her job, and an employee with autism struggling to get clarity from managers. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/mXxB50QGMK1
Next month in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this powerful novel.
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a powerful essay by Kyrah X about the loss and fame that comes with surviving a mass shooting and how fraught the experience is, especially when you’re Black. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/UF1o50QIVKu
In the latest Work Friend: someone stuck in a dead end job, a bigoted colleague, the dilemma of offering a recommendation for a less than stellar colleague, and a toxic coworker. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/EiJ750QNP0B
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about two books! The first is Real Americans by Rachel Khong (@rrrrrrrachelkhong). I hope you’ll join our discussion about this compelling novel at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion on May 29th. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-audacious-book-club-real-americans
For my newsletter, I wrote a meditation on our cultural obsession with billionaries. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-billion-dollar-question
Next week in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about our second May book, Real Americans. Register to join us May 29 at 8 p.m. ET at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/6oCc50RUnHS
Next month in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” by Emily Raboteau. I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this fantastic essay collection.
In this week’s Work Friend, a manager with boundary issues, how to manage the use of AI, whether to collaborate with a former boss who had an affair with a colleague, and learning how to train others. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/GFtU50QWPlH
On June 20th a new era commences. Do The Work is a must-read for a more just future—and a more equitable now.
Power is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. This guide features approachable overviews of complex topics, thought-provoking questions, evocative illustrations, pages for your reflections, and steps we can all take to reframe our relationship to power and reinvigorate our desire to empower the people around us.
Do The Work asks:
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Tomorrow in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about With My Back to the World. Register to join us at 8 p.m. ET at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/ACOU50RNOAS
This week in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is an excellent essay by Ash Pattinson-Scott about privacy, autonomy, and the medical procedures that may impact us the most, once we strip social stigma away. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-speck
