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Today is the day we publish our very last article as The Establishment. It's been an extraordinary three and a half years and we are immensely grateful for the support of our writers, readers, and members. THANK YOU and may the good fight continue. <3 theestablishment.co/farewell…
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Shout-out to all the sites out there doing amazing intersectional feminist work! Read/support--> @EvrydayFeminism @WearYourVoice @Narratively @damemagazine @CatapultStory
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Oh and the amazing @BitchMedia!
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"Whether you’ve read us, written for us, shared our articles, become a member, or donated your hard-earned moolah, you have fundamentally helped transform our media landscape into something more inclusive." THANK YOU. theestablishment.co/farewell…
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"We hope that, like us, your fear and rage and anger at the infinite ways we harm one another was eased when your eyes found our site, our community of humans who were all fighting the good fight." theestablishment.co/farewell…
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After three and a half years, The Establishment is coming to an end. Since October 2015, we've published more than 4,000 incredible stories by 990 writers. Thank you for making our dream of a more diverse media landscape possible! theestablishment.co/farewell…
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"In Ancient Egypt, people kept their real name secret; it was believed that if someone learned your real name, they’d have power over you." By @Tyler_TM theestablishment.co/the-powe…
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"'Tyler' fits. Sometimes I felt guilty interviewing people who had to go through an arduous process to find a name that felt right. All I did was emerge from the womb." By @Tyler_TM theestablishment.co/the-powe…
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"I imagined all those Indians dancing on the streets, knowing exactly who they were and what they fought for. I wanted to know what it meant to feel contentment, disgust—anything besides empty." By Aliya Mistry theestablishment.co/the-cata…
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"I’ve made a terrible mistake, I thought. All these years, I thought this was what I wanted. I’ll never get a full night of sleep again. I want my life back." By @SharlineChiang from @MuthaMagazine narratively.com/i-had-extrem…

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"Scientists have found pregnant rats experience an almost complete rewiring of brain circuitry before giving birth. She’s bolder and more efficient, capturing her cricket prey at four times the speed of non-mom rats." By @shanleyknox #PTSD #birth theestablishment.co/why-meto…
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"At week 26, when my baby was as big as a head of kale, a technician at Mt Sinai hit me — and him — with her blue gel wand, so she could see his stomach chambers. He jumped. And I froze — silent. Like so many times before." By @shanleyknox #PTSD #birth theestablishment.co/why-meto…
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"For a body that had returned to episodes of violence over and over and over again, it was the first time in my adult life that I was producing something — anything — that might be restorative, and I could feel the change." By @shanleyknox #PTSD #birth theestablishment.co/why-meto…
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"New Orleans hadn’t changed; it was the same city it had been before my breakdown. It was I who had changed—perhaps unalterably. I was a stranger to myself now, so how could the city and its residents not feel foreign?" By @Ms_Slyboots #mentalillness theestablishment.co/coming-t…
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