Role Reboot

Coming Out And Having A Hysterectomy Opened Me Up To Raising A Family

Now that I’ve had my hysterectomy, I’m not fighting my body every day. Now that I’ve come out, I’m not fighting my heart. When I was in middle school I told my friends that I never wanted to have kids. In high school I told my parents that all they’d ever get from me would […]

Why Angelina Jolie Really Is A Badass

In writing about her surgery, Jolie looks shame right in the face and refuses it: for herself, for other women, for me. I thank her for that. Once I visited a friend in Alaska, the kind of woman who camps in the snow in a tent with a woodstove. She surprised me by insisting we […]