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A Freedom Song for Black Women

Black women are like flowers in a field of kudzu. Beautiful, bright and colorful, we fight our way to the light so we are not overcome by society’s demands...

July 7, 2020

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Issues

Lift Every Voice And Sing: A Q&A with Activist and Singer Abby Dobson

Published by Angela Bronner Helm

In this January 31, 2017 interview, shortly after the Women’s March, journalist Angela Bronner Helm spoke with activist and singer Abby Dobson about protest, the persistent disconnect between women...

June 30, 2020

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Issues, Music

Two Old Friends on Growing Up Black and White in Lincoln, Nebraska

Published by Sara Gilliam and Eric Crump

(Photo courtesy of Sara Gilliam) A few weeks before the 2016 election, we shared a conversation about race between Sara, a white woman, and Eric, a Black man, who...

June 23, 2020

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Issues, Relationships

Depression in the Time of COVID-19 and a Lifetime Before

Published by Sarah Buttenwieser

I’m afraid of my bed. When I landed in a major depressive episode at the end of last October, bed wasn’t exactly a choice. My legs suddenly grew heavy....

June 16, 2020

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Issues, Mind

Baldwin & Baguettes: A Mother’s Burden at a Distance

Published by Tara Phillips

The worn cotton fibers of Emmanuel’s hoodie rubbed gently against my cheek when he went in for a final hug. “I love you, Mom”. “I love you too, Boo....

June 9, 2020

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Family, Issues, Love+

Self Care Tips When You Are Utterly Devastated

Published by Karrie Myers-Taylor

Watch Karrie’s video below. Shortly after the 2016 election, astrologer and wellness guide Karrie Myers Taylor penned this essay to address our collective post-election blues. And here we are,...

June 9, 2020

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Issues, Love+, Self

Roller Boogie: My Pandemic Security Blanket

Published by Michelle Arnold

One of my earliest pandemic projects was to clean out my desk alcove, which I often refer to as “the Dorian Gray of my apartment,” because it’s where I...

May 26, 2020

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Issues, Throwback

Wenderella: A Gen-X Fairytale of Viruses and Princesses

Published by Wendi Aarons

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful middle-aged woman named Wendi. Or Wenderella, as she called herself one night after she took a lot of cold medicine and...

May 5, 2020

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Family, Issues

I’m Willing to Dye for Normalcy

Published by Amy Barr

I haven’t worn makeup in 34 days. Or pants, for that matter. Since my family and I decamped from our New York City apartment to our upstate home, I...

April 28, 2020

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Issue: Covid-19, Issues, Self

What Our Country Has Lost With Corona We’ve Lost Before

Published by Karrie Myers-Taylor

I wrote this poem in 2001, just days after 9/11, when I was 25 years old and living in Brooklyn. Reading it now, at 43, in the midst of the...

April 21, 2020

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Issue: Covid-19, Issues, Poetry

Finding Equilibrium: When You Both Need Care

Published by Issa Mas

My jaw clenches as he yells at me from less than two feet away about a video game character’s ability to perform some amazing feat I immediately tune out,...

April 14, 2020

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Family, Issue: Covid-19, Issues, Love+

That Time Simon LeBon Worked in My Office

Published by Michelle Arnold

Like many 13-year-old girls in 1984, I often dreamed that Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon would one day randomly show up at my door. Unlike most of those girls,...

April 6, 2020

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Culture, Issues, Music

Moo Sexy: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone for Love

Published by Robin Gelfenbien

Ten years ago, my boyfriend, Greg, and I are lying in bed on a lazy Sunday afternoon when he says he needs to talk to me about something. My...

March 31, 2020

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Dating, Issue: Risk, Issues, Love+

Corona Parenting: Do My Kids Need to See Me Cry?

Published by Ericka Kreutz

Photo of Ericka by Sarah Sido I was lying next to my seven-year-old son at bedtime. He doesn’t ask for this often because he knows I always say no....

March 24, 2020

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Family, Issue: Covid-19, Issues, Love+

Fear and Fresh Air: How Two Trips to Mexico Set Me Free

Published by Deesha Philyaw

My lifelong bad habit of not reading the fine print has been rivaled only by my bad habit of ignoring relationship red flags. Ignoring the fine print landed my...

March 10, 2020

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Issue: Explore, Issues, Trips

Get Lost: The Awesome, Scary, Wonder of My Midlife Travel

Published by Jenny Douglas

One early afternoon about 12 years ago I took three left turns and two right turns along the dense streets of Hanoi, Vietnam — and promptly found myself unutterably...

March 3, 2020

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Issues, Trips

Embarking on My Own Year of Yes

Published by Taiia Smart-Young

I’ll allow Shonda Rhimes to take credit for inventing the year of yes (YOY). This TV titan did make it famous, but let the record show that I invented...

February 11, 2020

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Issue: Risk, Issues, Life Lessons

The Greatest Risk of All? Choosing Me

Published by Stacy Morrison

I’m an avowed risk-taker. In fact, I had a business card for a while that bragged about this. I tucked the word “instigator” on there, between “editor” and “writer.”...

February 4, 2020

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Career, Issue: Risk, Issues, Work + $$

TueNight Live: Photos from RISK

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Neil Kramer For some people, standing up and sharing a personal story feels risky — luckily for the record crowd (almost 120 of you!) at our...

February 4, 2020

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Issue: Risk, Issues, TueNight Events

The Risk Issue

Published by Margit Detweiler

We each have a list of things we’ll risk, and a list of things we — hell no — will not. Like, I’ll risk talking to a stranger on...

January 28, 2020

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Issues, Margit's Note

TueNight 10: Nina Lorez Collins

Published by TueNight Crew

Nina is the founder of a social platform and website for women over 40 called the Woolfer, as well as the co-host of a podcast, Raging Gracefully, author of...

July 10, 2020

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TueNight 10: Aliya S. King

Published by TueNight Crew

Aliya S. King is a writer and podcast producer who wears caftans unironically. Her latest book, Keep Your Head Up, will be out from Denene Millner Books | Simon...

July 3, 2020

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TueNight 10: Fran Hauser

Published by TueNight Crew

Fran Hauser is a best-selling author, speaker on women’s leadership, and business advisor. Her first book, The Myth of the Nice Girl, was the top business book of 2018...

June 25, 2020

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TueNight 10: Casey Quinlan

Published by TueNight Crew

Casey Quinlan blends her background in network news and standup comedy to inform her health policy work. She hosts the podcast Healthcare Is HILARIOUS and wrote the Amazon bestseller...

June 18, 2020

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TueNight 10: Celeste Smith

Published by TueNight Crew

Celeste Smith is an unapologetically Black Muslim woman striving to make the world a better place. Her most recent work can be found in the anthology Tender, a collection...

June 11, 2020

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TueNight 10: Marie Denee

Published by TueNight Crew

Marie Denee is the Editor in Chic at The Curvy Fashionista. She is an established and respected voice in the plus size fashion arena, making it her mission to...

May 28, 2020

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TueNight10

61% of Women Would Rather Talk About Their Own Deaths Than This Topic

Published by Diane di Costanzo

My trigger to stop being so secretive about money occurred in a Palm Springs hot tub, while my sister and I were parboiling ourselves under a clump of shaggily...

April 30, 2019

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Issue: Secret, Money, Work + $$

10 Ways to Keep From Retiring in a Cardboard Box

Published by Caitlin Kelly

I’ve never had access to a 401(k) plan — I’ve been working full-time freelance since 2006. I’ve always wanted to retire, no matter how anathema that sounds in workaholic...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How to Have the Money Talk with Your Parents

Published by Lauren Young

(Photo credit: Stocksy.com) Even if you began planning for your Golden Years at an early age, there is one thing about retirement that no one ever warns you about:...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How a Finance Pro Saves for Retirement After Leaving Her Job

Published by Bobbi Rebell Kaufman

As the author of How to be a Financial Grownup, I am the original Financial Grownup. Right after college, I got my Certificate in Financial Planning so I would...

February 21, 2017

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Money

9 Summer Shoes That Will Keep Your Feet in a State of Happy

Published by Margit Detweiler

Happy feet, it has been said, are the secret to a happy life. Or maybe I just said that. Anyway, as someone with a myriad of foot ailments, I...

June 18, 2019

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Fashion, Issues, Style

Lipstick Secrets: My Quest to Wear Parallel Red, Forever

Published by Alison Mazer

In 1986, during my first month of college at SUNY Purchase, I spotted a woman on campus wearing the most beautiful, fire-engine-red lipstick — and no other makeup. Just...

April 30, 2019

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Beauty, Issue: Secret, Style

The Magic of the Bitch and Swap

Published by Wendy Marston

Long ago in the 1990s, when I was a freelance magazine writer, I never had enough of anything — money, love, other people, and of course, clothing. I worked...

April 25, 2017

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Fashion

18 Seriously Comfortable Shoes for Spring and Summer

Published by Margit Detweiler

My shoe predicament has become even worse. About two springs ago, when I was on the hunt for the bestest, comfiest, maybe even cute-in-a-certain-light pair of shoes, I wrote...

April 11, 2017

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Style

I Let My Student Talk Me Into Botox

Published by Nicola Prentis

Dr. M wasn’t my doctor; he was my student. Normally at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, we were in his office having English class. But today, I was...

March 28, 2017

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Beauty

How to Build the Perfect Bed

Published by Jody Jones

Photo courtesy Jody Jones Sleep, that elusive and temperamental beast. I’ve spent my adulthood seeking it like Godzilla hunts Mothra, or the way that perimenopausal women look for sleep....

February 7, 2017

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Style, The Bod

TueNight Live: Photos from “First Jobs” at The Wing

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Erika Hokanson. We worked Fashion Week, drove a Weinermobile, toured with RuPaul, sold chocolate chip cookies — and got more than we bargained for. These were...

April 24, 2018

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Issue: First Job, TueNight Events, Video

Now That I’m Over 40, I Cannot and I Will Not… (VIDEO)

Published by TueNight Crew

“Stop cursing like a sailor!” “Stop having adventures.” “Wear Spanx.” Hell to the yes, sister. We asked several women over 40 about the things they can’t stop/ won’t stop...

November 7, 2017

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