Work
A sampling of my writing, media appearances, and conversations on reproductive justice, body autonomy, and social change. More links to my work can be found on my About page.
I know I am slowly saying goodbye to pieces of me that have felt like body parts, that I thought I needed to stay alive: the ongoing current of anxiety, the thrum of criticism in my head. I remind myself that the ache is powerful. It’s what transformation feels like. We can’t grow without saying goodbye to what we no longer need, to create space and room to nurture new worlds within us.
The sharp, familiar outlines of anorexia and bulimia came into view when I met T. I was 52 years old, two years separated from my husband of 25 years, and still grieving the sudden death of my mother. T. wasn’t the cause of the resurgence of this decades-long disease. He didn’t create the cliff that I had been hurtling toward—but he certainly encouraged me to jump.
I was honored to interview Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author and journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about her new book, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.”
“ I find these conversations so interesting—this conversation with you, the conversations I’m having with other women between this perimenopausal and menopausal age—because we pepper in all this estrogen and cortisol and dopamine and lack of testosterone and midlife ADHD…and you know, I think we’re piecing these things together for ourselves.”
When I started writing about the eating disorder I experienced at 54 years old, I was in a writing group for midlife women. I joined the group to restart my writing practice…
Or why I am editing an anthology of midlife women’s experiences with eating disorders titled “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder” coming out in Fall 2026. Because our stories aren’t the end of the struggle — they’re a way through it.
For this issue, we spoke with Amie Newman, a lifelong health activist, widely published writer and storyteller, and award winning editor. Amie contributed to the last print edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves (2011) and was the siteʼs staff blogger, covering topics like racial disparities in maternal mortality and abortion access.
An interview about my volunteer abortion doula work with Cascade PBS after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
I crack bit by bit. Mile by mile. Season after season. Egged on by the sparkle of the green moss, the blinding of the mountain snow, the brightening of autumn leaves, I drive. Hands gripping the wheel, I can’t run. My foot on the gas, my mother’s absence squeezes me tight and my grief has nowhere to go. I wail to release the beast.
I was honored to be a guest on Jada Pinkett Smith’s show Red Table Talk. Three women from diverse backgrounds joined the Red Table to discuss the concept of white privilege, and how it affects the relationships between white women and women of color.
I was born in a snowstorm from a woman whose body was stolen. She was knocked out and drugged up hours after arriving at the hospital where she planned to birth her first child. [Published originally in Entropy Magazine, which has since shut down]
It’s impossible not to see the pleas plastered on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram: “We are better than this.” “This is not who America is.” “This is not the America I know!” But it is who we are: what the United States is doing to families and children, specifically families and children of color, by ripping them apart at the U.S. border is part and parcel of an ongoing history.
“Reproductive Rights” is a compilation of essays and articles and explores the complex and often contentious landscape of reproductive health and rights. My article explores the importance of health care coverage for reproductive health care in the United States.
An article I wrote, “Pregnant? Don’t Fall Down the Stairs,” was cited in this book by noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt.
I was honored to be a contributor to the best-selling women’s health guide’s Early Months of Parenting chapter in this edition!