HER/HIS story MC sits on a hard chair shaking her head. It is pre-summer 2013 and MC’s big breasts fall out of MC’s flowered razorback bra. MC’s black thong swings...

His Murphy bed dropped from the wall in that Arizona studio apartment. While he watched Miami Vice.Ed wash the teacups, wipe counters. clear away his MIS textbooks. Bight PM sharp:catching...

I am the only one alone on this train,watching families cluster, friends laugh.Mile Post Seventy-Two slides past the window,avalanche protection standing guard. Morning haze from last night’s forest firescents the...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Kinder, I was her child until childhood grew teeth she was mine Bubbe until memory learned hunger my little town swallows itself...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Joy radiates through my entire body like electricity. Sparks travel from my core to my fingertips in waves of pure, unfiltered delight....

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! A few words by the author: Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight is not a conventional Holocaust memoir; rather, it is an act of literary...

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Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! James laced a telephone cord around his mother’s neck and pulled until he asphyxiated her. I knew James since first grade. In...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! When I was 21, I discovered Chautauqua Institution during a summer stay in a family cottage belonging to my sister’s boyfriend’s mother. My sister...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Bubbe wrapped me in a towel, baked in the Arizona sun, draping herself in the same green-ratted robe she’d worn since my...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I cherished watching I Love Lucy with my Bubbe, lying side by side on her shag carpet as matzoh ball soup lingered in the...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Are you the kind of traveler who needs frequent rest stops? Then read one woman’s story of how she copes (and gets...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! When I was 21, I discovered Chautauqua Institution during a summer stay in a family cottage belonging to my sister’s boyfriend’s mother. My sister...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! In the heart of Southeast Texas, Beaumont surprises visitors with its rich culinary landscape. Located about 90 miles east of Houston and...

One week in 2016 when I was 44, I decided why not get an MFA. Even though I already had an MA in English as a Second Language and a...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Pumpkins have always been my favorite part of fall. Though I grew up in Arizona, these cheerful orange harbingers of autumn helped...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Nestled on the western shore of Owasco Lake in Auburn, NY, part of the picturesque Finger Lakes region, Springside Inn stands as a testament to...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and refugee who, after the war, was given a choice of three destinations. She chose the United...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Growing up as a Muslim-Jewish girl in an interfaith family in the 1980s, I felt like an outsider in a world that...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Abstract This short paper argues that to address the exploitation of survivors’ labour in anti-trafficking work, it is essential to allocate funds...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! A Q&A WITH TIA LEVINGS Tia Levings’ memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape From Christian Patriarchy (St. Martin’s Press, August 2024), recounts her escape...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! In 2010, after a 17-year marriage, my husband asked for a divorce, saying he couldn’t be married anymore. We had two sons,...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! In the rain, eat pistachios The girl with the red dress, hands me a lily Secrets of the house—of the blouse—of the...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My bike rides are my time to be with my Catalina mountains (which I’ve claimed as my own), the cacti, and the...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I didn’t drink caffeine for the first 30ish years of my...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Ariel view of the Galveston Pier Photo Courtesy of Visit Galveston Galveston is packed with history, heartbreak, and a lot of good...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Like a potbellied sandwich Found in a neighborhood sandwich shop I’m hot and gooey Swiss-cheesy Filled with red and green hot peppers...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My dear waters, I leave you today, for a desert that isn’t chocolate-filled or creamy. My desert has saguaros and ocotillos, Howling...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Sarah, my great grandma Sarah, I have given you back your daughter Mina. She has returned to you. Even though we have...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! The newest Rudy’s “Country Store” and Bar-B-Q location has opened its doors in Scottsdale, Arizona, just in time for the 27th Annual Arizona Bike Week, April 3-7,...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! SS: Thanks so much for agreeing to this interview, Tamara! Would you say that you fear rejection? Why or why not?  TMC: I’ve...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! 1. What is your personal experience with gender-based violence (this may include domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, female genital mutilation etc)? I...

Article Voiceover AHA Foundation: Can you start by telling us about your upbringing? Particularly the religious culture that you were brought up in. Tamara: When I was 5 years old,...

Adiba Nelson is the author of “Ain’t that a Mother,” a hilarious and vulnerable memoir about Black motherhood, Cerebral Palsy, and surviving intergenerational trauma. Adiba’s memoir is timely and so...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My boyfriend and I had a perfect Christmas with a Venezuelan meal, a fire pit, and dancing.  But that night, he broke...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Tamara MC, former cult member, interviews Christina Ward about Holy Food: How Cults, Commune, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat, An...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Top 5 Most Read of 2023 Athena Dixon by Dr. Tamara MC When I read the title of Athena Dixon’s latest book, The Loneliness...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! What does a lifetime of loneliness look like, feel like in the body? Athena Dixon examines this question in her second book, The Loneliness...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I had two kids in high school and a beautiful house on a hill when I got divorced more than a decade ago. Because...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! ON JANUARY 5, 1975, when Guinevere Turner was seven, the world was supposed to end. She grabbed her favorite toy and donned...

Originally a novel written by Miriam Toews, the film Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley, won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. (Photo: Michael Gibson/Orion Pictures) Want to listen...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Many are stunned after watching Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, a docuseries about the famously growing Duggar family, on Amazon Prime. How could this have...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Cycling every day has so many benefits for your physical and mental health, as writer Tamara MC reveals to woman&home Cycling is...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! TRIPLETS Tamara MC We named them: Fuchsia, Turquoise, and Black Ivory. The moment they were fertilized, before they had even become fetuses,...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Guinevere Turner Tamara MC interviews Guinevere Turner Turner is a screenwriter (American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page), film director, actress, and now author...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Two years ago, I published my first essay. Since then, I’ve published nearly 30. If I can do it, so can you....

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! By Tamara MC For fans of Educated by Tara Westover, Maid by Stephanie Land, and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Michelle Dowd’s debut coming-of-age memoir Forager: Field Notes for...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Dr. Tamara MC is a cult, child marriage, and human trafficking survivor/activist and cheerleads worldwide for girls and women to live free...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I’ve ridden my bike 12.2 miles daily for the past three years. The night before, I make sure my Airpods are charged,...

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! James laced a telephone cord around his mother’s neck and pulled until he asphyxiated her. I knew James since first grade. In...