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Michelle Dowd

Family Secrets

Grammie asks me to promise I’ll never grow old, stroking my blonde hair reassuringly, as if I’m a reluctant dog. She tells me I remind her…

Sep 7, 2020

Family Secrets

Sep 7, 2020

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

What I Learned about Masculinity from my Father

“It is not as if what is true, right, urgent and necessary is a light, and what is harm is darkness. They are both darkness; they are both…

Jun 11, 2019

What I Learned about Masculinity from my Father

Jun 11, 2019

What’s Savasana For?

“A healer is someone that triggers healing powers within you”

Apr 8, 2019

What’s Savasana For?

Apr 8, 2019

Over Dinner

Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would…

Feb 1, 2019

Over Dinner

Feb 1, 2019

To Be Seen

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” — Thoreau

Jan 15, 2019

To Be Seen

Jan 15, 2019

Strike Your Note

“Pathmaker, there is no path. You make the path by walking. By walking, you make the path. ”

Oct 21, 2018

Strike Your Note

Oct 21, 2018

Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Jul 19, 2018

Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

Jul 19, 2018

What I Learned Pole Dancing

For the past few months, I’ve been training with a woman we call J. She’s an accomplished athlete, dancer, performer and business owner…

Jun 23, 2018

What I Learned Pole Dancing

Jun 23, 2018

Hold My Hand

Gayle died when we were fourteen. We were roommates in the Hematology/Oncology ward in Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles the spring of our…

Jun 17, 2018

Hold My Hand

Jun 17, 2018

Quiet Street

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its…

Apr 22, 2018

Quiet Street

Apr 22, 2018

Dark Gifts

It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.

Mar 31, 2018

Dark Gifts

Mar 31, 2018

Let’s Talk about Enthusiastic Consent

it was when i stopped searching for home with others

Feb 18, 2018

Let’s Talk about Enthusiastic Consent

Feb 18, 2018

About Art

Ultimately, art helps us resist oppression, whether internally or externally enforced.

Jan 13, 2018

About Art

Jan 13, 2018

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the baseline

You Don’t Need a Degree:

And newspapers are dead, so why is journalism even part of the college curriculum?

Sep 23, 2016

You Don’t Need a Degree:

Sep 23, 2016

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the baseline

Nope, Not Sorry

In the documentary film “Never Sorry,” a reporter from the BBC interviews the influential renegade artist Ai Wei Wei, as he is returning…

Nov 24, 2015

Nope, Not Sorry

Nov 24, 2015

Michelle Dowd

Michelle Dowd

Author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult. Visit MichelleDowd.org for more information. Or follow me on Substack.

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