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Kerala Goodkin

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How Things Break

How Things Break

HOW THINGS BREAK, winner of the Elixir Press Inaugural Fiction Award, tells the story of Nat, a woman who can't sit still.

2006

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Modern Motherhood

On reconciling my maternal instincts with a world that dismisses and denies them

Oct 22, 2024

The Cognitive Dissonance of Modern Motherhood

Oct 22, 2024

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That Day I Went Crazy and Ended My Marriage

The all-too-familiar story that denies women their fury and pain

Nov 12, 2024

That Day I Went Crazy and Ended My Marriage

Nov 12, 2024

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Okay, Okay, I’m On Substack Now

Medium, I’m not leaving you yet. But I‘m cheating on you, just so you know.

Apr 11, 2023

Okay, Okay, I’m On Substack Now

Apr 11, 2023

Doomed to Die Alone

The stories we tell ourselves about being single, and the world’s dumbest argument against divorce

1d ago

Doomed to Die Alone

1d ago

Mom Versus Society

We rarely acknowledge what’s most exhausting about modern motherhood. Let’s talk about it.

Oct 31

Mom Versus Society

Oct 31

How We Exploit Women’s Time

And how women can take it back

Oct 17

How We Exploit Women’s Time

Oct 17

Here’s What Happened When I Stopped Consuming National News

And here are five things I’m doing instead

Sep 30

Here’s What Happened When I Stopped Consuming National News

Sep 30

How to Co-Parent with Someone Who Hates You

Do you happen to know? I’m asking for a friend.

Sep 17

How to Co-Parent with Someone Who Hates You

Sep 17

Where “Breast is Best” Keeps Missing the Mark

If mothers should breastfeed for a year, then mothers need a year of paid leave. Full stop.

Sep 2

Where “Breast is Best” Keeps Missing the Mark

Sep 2

Love & Abuse

Living in the rifts between the Real World and the Upside Down

Aug 20

Love & Abuse

Aug 20

Kerala Goodkin

Kerala Goodkin

18.3K followers

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Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralagoodkin.substack.com

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