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This story held us when nothing else could—books, films, podcasts and more that honor the stories of SA survivors.

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Deep Cuts: 5 archive interviews with literary greats

Feb 28, 2025 • Ashley Simpo

Homegirls: The Role of Grace in Friendships with Women, Femmes, and Mothers

Nov 19, 2024 • Ashley Simpo

The Living Room is the New Viral

Mar 8, 2025 • Ashley Simpo

10 Things We Said Goodbye to in Our 30s Told Through Scenes From The Color Purple

Dec 17, 2024 • tiffany rose

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The Revolution Will Be Tender

In unprecedented times, our wellness must be unprecedented too.

Apr 30, 2025 • Ashley Simpo and tiffany rose

Jealousy, Rebranded

We were raised to see jealousy as petty or shameful—but what if it's just a message we never learned how to read?

Apr 15, 2025 • tiffany rose and Ashley Simpo

Listen: What Jealousy is Trying to Tell You

Tiffany and Ashley give jealousy a rebrand, reframing it from shameful emotion to useful intel on what we truly need.

Apr 15, 2025 • Ashley Simpo and tiffany rose

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A Soft Place to Land: Tools for Writing Through Trauma

In honor of SA Awareness Month, we’re revisiting The Take Care series. Open to all, all April.

Apr 6, 2025 • Ashley Simpo and tiffany rose

Audio Archives: A Conversation on Survival and Storytelling

Before The Landline, there was this conversation—about trauma, creativity, survival, and what it means to write the hard things.

Apr 5, 2025 • Ashley Simpo and tiffany rose

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When You Have Some Time

Growing up without holidays gave me a different take on Thanksgiving—and gratitude.

Nov 28, 2024 • Ashley Simpo

Homegirls: The Role of Grace in Friendships with Women, Femmes, and Mothers

Read this when your mom friend cancels again.

Nov 19, 2024 • Ashley Simpo

Privilege, Awareness and Oppression

Read this when self-care is not enough.

Oct 11, 2024 • Ashley Simpo

I turned 40 and waited to feel old but felt free instead.

Read this at your "big" age.

May 30, 2024 • Ashley Simpo

Tell Me Something Good

Leftovers, Letting Go, and Laying Like Broccoli

Finding the good in what lingers, what fades, and what’s still to come.

Dec 9, 2024 • tiffany rose

A Millennial Woman Can Hack Anything, Even Aging

We’re crowdsourcing care, sharing wisdom, and rewriting the rules—this is how we age now. And that’s good news for everybody.

Sep 17, 2024 • tiffany rose

Trees Still Grow in Brooklyn

The good thing is sometimes life feels like a movie.

Jul 1, 2024 • tiffany rose

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