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Grandma’s: A House Manual in the Age of COVID

Welcome to Grandma’s house. We understand this was not your first choice for a week away from the toxic San Francisco air, especially when the air down here in...

September 22, 2020

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Caregiving, Issues

Come Sleep with Me: Caretaking Mom

Published by Desiree Cooper

When I turned 50, I rediscovered the splendid stretch of my own bed. Marriage-free after 25 years, children grown and gone, no pets with their whiny demands, I could...

September 15, 2020

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Caregiving, Issues

Taking Care of the Strongest Man I Ever Knew

Published by Christine Stroebel

My father asked me, “How long does it take?” I felt all the sound, light, air — everything — leave the room; only the weight of those words...

September 1, 2020

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Issues, Loss

I’m An Insomniac. And I’m Sleeping Like a Baby During the Pandemic

Published by Jenny Douglas

“You know, don’t you, that Cleo chewed on your hair while you were sleeping last night.” Kent, my beloved, is speaking to me from across the kitchen counter about...

August 25, 2020

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Issues

Sleeping in My Clothes: Holding Tight to Impetuous Youth

Published by Rachel Kramer Bussel

I woke up this morning in my hotel room wearing a bra and beautiful purple flowered Rachel Roy dress, one that always makes me feel beautiful and yields compliments....

August 18, 2020

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Issues

Making Prank Calls: Finding Retribution as a Kid in the 80s

Published by Deesha Philyaw

Growing up, I was a good kid. Forever on honor roll, obedient, well-mannered, and respectful. The kind of kid teachers in the late 70s and early 80s left in...

August 11, 2020

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Issues, Life Lessons

An Astrologer Tells Us Why We Need to Take a Nap Right Now, And Start Dreaming

Published by Karrie Myers Taylor

“I just don’t know what I should be doing right now!”, one of my clients lamented recently. “The world is so messed up, there’s so much I should be...

August 4, 2020

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Issues

Nope, It Doesn’t Need to be Steamed, Sprayed or Douched

Published by Deesha Philyaw

A few years ago, I was talking with a relative and the talk turned to douches. I don’t remember how we got on this subject, but there we were,...

July 28, 2020

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Health, Issues

Black Like Lauryn: How I Went from Baltimore Beauty to Diaspora Darling

Published by Toya R. Smith

My last year in college, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was everywhere. All we listened to, all we sang. The strains of it wafted on the wind across campus....

July 21, 2020

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Identity, Issues

Summer Book and Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

Published by TueNight Crew

We’re giving one lucky winner a $100 Amazon gift card and two “literary fans” book packages that feature three titles from Penguin Random House: Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure,...

July 16, 2020

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Giveaways, Issues

My Search for the “Oh Yes!” When Sex Was a No-No

Published by Melanie Dione

Sexual education in my conservative, southern, Christian upbringing was strictly on a need-to-know basis: I needed to know what I should avoid. An entire sexual revolution swirled around me,...

July 14, 2020

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Issues, Sex

A Freedom Song for Black Women

Published by Tamara Winfrey Harris

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

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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Video