![]() ![]() I think of Yoko’s famous line: Woman is the n-word of the world. The struggles of women are always “only” that. ![]() How to best resist it? Nothing’s ever been or will ever be equal, let’s start there. Because women’s bodies are an actual battlefield, with large political consequences.Įlisa Albert: It’s a hell of a persistent bias. Paula Bomer: I take issue with the idea that women’s fiction dealing with the “domestic,” in the case of After Birth, with birth and caregiving to the very young, isn’t political or even globally political. ![]() Interviewing her was equally gleeful, where we discuss, among other things, having little babies, second wave feminism, what I think of as bitch culture and she more intelligently calls “female aggression,” generosity among women, the failure of mothers’ groups, and so much more. Albert writes with a blistering honesty that may make some people uncomfortable, and I truly hope After Birth makes some people squirm, but of course, it was right up my female passage, or alley, so to speak. I just want to rub her novel all over me. ![]() Rarely have I had to read out loud so many passages to anyone who would listen because, damn, I had to share the brilliance. Reading After Birthby Elisa Albert felt like getting a big, wet, aggressively sloppy kiss. ![]()
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