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Ruining the Workplace: A How-To Guide
What Men Call Destruction, Women Call Setting Boundaries
Nov 12, 2025
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Tarra
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Republicans are hurting your (narrowly defined) sex life
metaphors we love by
Feb 9
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why are girls so catty?
because sexism
Jan 24
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Tarra
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how to ruin the economy (by refusing to subsidize it for free)
motherhood is the mother of invention
Jan 10
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Tarra
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Jaime Parker Stickle and Vicious Cycle
A recording from Tarra's live video: a debut thriller, metaphors, women, and book pairings
Jan 3
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Jaime Stickle
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a note to avoid confusion
Dec 30, 2025
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beauty: when women aren't consumers but consumed
Beauty is a commodity because women are a commodity
Dec 29, 2025
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Tarra
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what we know and what we say are not the same: patriarchal optics
the metaphors: expertise is masculine / personality is feminine AND understanding is seeing / knowing is seeing
Dec 18, 2025
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Tarra
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kill your darlings: the language of creative women
should all we be stephen king?
Dec 12, 2025
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your language is holding you back (especially if you're a woman): part 2
ambition and creativity and Hedy Lamarr
Dec 11, 2025
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Tarra
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erika kirk doesn't know it, but she has a wife
how language keeps women economically invisible
Dec 5, 2025
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Tarra
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how to recognize your worth -- despite what the department of education says
because you deserve more than occupational feminization
Nov 27, 2025
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Tarra
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Soft Skills are Suddenly Super Sexy: feminist praxis
How language systematically devalues women's expertise, even though it's the only thing AI can't replace
Nov 21, 2025
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Tarra
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my body is not public property
no trespassing: how language makes women's bodies public property
Nov 6, 2025
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