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The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts

May 22, 2015 By Maureen Langloss

knitted_breastI’m pleased to share my latest article, The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts, an essay about violence against women, Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and a short-story gone wrong.  It was published today as part of Prairie Schooner’s series on “Women and the Global Imagination.”

 

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Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay, New Work Tagged With: Bad Feminist, Breast Cancer, Laura Houghteling, Michelle Bachelet, Mireya Navarro, Prairie Schooner, Ray Rice, Robin Thicke, Roxane Gay, Violence against Women, Women's Law Project

Latest Post

CHARM, Still-Life, and Old Lady Abs

This winter is kicking my ass. I am DRAGGING. It’s partly the brutal cold, it’s partly some health stuff, but it’s mostly the state of the world. I’m heartsick over the violence ICE has perpetrated and the fear that our immigrant and urban communities are living under, particularly in Minneapolis. I’m worried about voter suppression, […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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