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Life Stories

Writing dark themes after becoming a parent (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

On mothers and monsters

Amber Cowie
Gender Nonconforming (Getty Images/Salon)

How gender ideals limit us from birth

Shane Tan
Rakim (Jill Greenberg)

The world according to Rakim

D. Watkins
Josh Seftel and Mac McKinney (Original Thinkers)

"My whole life is guilt"

Nicole Karlis
Wedding in prison (Getty Images/Salon)

My wedding day, inside a prison

Keeonna Harris
U.S. soldiers from 1-8, 3rd Brigade, of the 4th Infantry Division search a store in the industrial section of Samarra, 17 December, 2003. A major operation named Operation Ivy Blizzard began early Wednesday morning which targeted a large number of wanted men and suspected weapons caches (STEFAN ZAKLIN/AFP via Getty Images)

In Iraq, right after the 2003 invasion

Frank Gregory Ford, Eleanor Cooney
Adam Rippon attends the 2019 Time 100 Gala. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

How losing made Adam Rippon a winner

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Children holding hands and running through the park. (Getty Images)

Raising a Black girl in white America

D. Watkins
Father and two daughters taking a walk down the street (Getty Images)

Why having a kid means moving away

D. Watkins
Female Rage (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

On transfeminine anger

Samantha Riedel
(Getty Images/iStock)

Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur

Lisa Tognola
Pregnant couple holding baby shoes (Getty Images/Salon)

My biggest and best fear: Fatherhood

D. Watkins
The tiny paper dragon, in the palm of Rene’s hand (photo provided by PR firm)

A gift from an innocent man on death row

Rene Denfeld
Waitress working at a restaurant (Getty Images)

"That waitress who thinks she can write"

Mesha Maren
Timothy J. Hillegonds (Michael Chalmers)

Men explain toxic masculinity to me

Timothy J. Hillegonds
Author Pat Conroy attends a benefit reading for actor Frank Muller at Town Hall February 2, 2002 in New York City (Jeffrey Vock/Getty Images)

How Pat Conroy and I became best friends

Bernie Schein
"If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings" edited by Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman (Skyhorse Publishing)

Long aftermath of a mass shooting

Karein Goertz
A tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Back to school, with a baby

Elizabeth Ames
Patient with IV drip (Getty Images/iStock)

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
(Getty Images/ Salon)

"You want a rich lady mouth"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Open book and glasses on wood desk in the library room (Getty Images/ Konstantin Maslak)

Private lessons for the famous director

Marilee Albert
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Our worst year yet, at the best schools

Teru Clavel
(Getty/ Antonio Guillem)

When I stopped orbiting men at work

Brooke Warner
Left: Steve and Tina; Right: Andra and Ona (Courtesy of the author)

Life in the house of alternative facts

Ona Gritz
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