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Help me with my book!

Join my upcoming Zoom and tell me your stories

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We need to talk about why women are expected to tolerate pain

“If we don’t share our stories, we'll all keep thinking, ‘It’s just me who couldn’t handle it.”

Dec 5 •

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What I learned as a white woman in the gun safety movement

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How ancestry.com helped me forgive my grandmother

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Protecting your mental health is not the same as looking away

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Weekly roundup of things that are 🔥🔥🔥

From the Harlem Renaissance to sleep trackers to Naked Attraction

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Featured Firestarter

I did not know what living an increasingly public life would mean for me. Throughout eight political campaigns, eight years as St. Petersburg's first…

Nov 29

Meet Firestarter Carry Nation

The most vilified woman of the twentieth century

Nov 24

Join me on Zoom!

I want to hear from the Firestarters who follow me

Nov 21

Weekly roundup of things that are 🔥🔥🔥

From the Beckhams to Black joy to stopping abortion bans

Nov 17 •

Don't waste your time worrying about only children

But as both an only child and the mother of five, I want to assuage women’s fears: there are many, many things to worry about when it comes to having…

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Meet Firestarter Josephine Baker

Meet Firestarter Josephine Baker, a badass resistance spy. She was born in St. Louis in 1906, and moved to France at age 19. Josephine emigrated with…

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