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Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, TueNight and elsewhere. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, her collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in fall 2020.

Contributions:

Profiles

A Conversation with Nefertiti Austin

Reviews

A Review of Motherhood So White

Essays, Literary Reflections

Remixing Memories: Back Down Memory Lane

Profiles

An Interview with Jessica Warman

Profiles

A Conversation with Lori Tharps

Reviews

Navigating Motherhood: A Review of Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin

Profiles

An Interview with Kim McLarin

Profiles

An Interview with Lonnae O’Neal Parker

Reviews

Ain’t I a Woman? A Review of I’m Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work

The Girl is Mine

Monsters, and Rejection, and Disappointment! Oh, My!

The Girl is Mine

Travel Down Memory Lane … Because I Said So.

The Girl is Mine

Striking a Balance

The Girl is Mine

The Fix-It Fairy

The Girl is Mine

Just Say No

Reviews

Not One Mother, But Many: A Review of The Women Who Raised Me

The Girl is Mine

The Talk, Part One in a Series

The Girl is Mine

Musical Beds

The Girl is Mine

We are Family

The Girl is Mine

Secret, Secret…I’ve Got a Secret

The Girl is Mine

A Little Help, Please?

The Girl is Mine

A Black Mama’s Interactive Guide to Shopping for Dolls for Christmas: The Good, The Bad, and The Barbie

The Girl is Mine

Sunday, Whiny Sunday

The Girl is Mine

My Daughter, My Self

The Girl is Mine

Sparing the Rod

The Girl is Mine

Again

The Girl is Mine

Postscript

The Girl is Mine

Letting Go

The Girl is Mine

Women Want Wives, Too

The Girl is Mine

Free at Last

The Girl is Mine

Day . . . Break

Reviews

Common Threads: A Review of Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption

Profiles

An Interview with Barbara Katz Rothman

The Girl is Mine

Oui, Mademoiselle

The Girl is Mine

I Knew Her When

The Girl is Mine

Who’s Your Daddy?

Reviews

A Review of Rise up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood

The Girl is Mine

What She Said

The Girl is Mine

It’s Official

Profiles

An Interview with Cecelie S. Berry

The Girl is Mine

Two’s Company

The Girl is Mine

Say My Name

The Girl is Mine

Yes, Sweetie, Baby Sister is Black Like Us

Poetry

Daughter

The Girl is Mine

Sister Knows Best

The Girl is Mine

The Girl is Mine

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