Elissa Lash

Opinion | What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals

What would it take to change the way we as culture groom and sexualize girls, and hold the clientele accountable? It would take using this moment to prosecute Trump and other powerful men and women across party lines. It’s time.

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The Money I Get for My Body - The Forge Literary Magazine The Money I Get for My Body, creative nonfiction by Elissa Lash

Our nonfiction story of the month is The Money I Get for my Body by Elissa Lash. @elissalash.bsky.social

I so appreciate your ability to have a wider lens!!!

Thanks Fernando. I think the movie watching public has more curiosity and appetite for truth than the industry give us credit for!

Image is of the Anora film poster with the lead character, a dark haired young woman embracing a young man only partially in the frame. She is smiling with her head tilted back.

My recent essay/film critique.
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Laptop in front of a big window looking out over a mossy yard, also I have a lot of notebooks, pens and glasses cases!

According to my friend, my writing work space is “swanky”.
I’ll take it.

A cast iron skillet with a freshly made, luscious and bright yellow frittata sits on the stove top. Behind the pan is a blue tea kettle.

Sunday morning. When the world is a dystopian novel, I’m grateful for my chickens. They are fluffy and friendly and give us beautiful eggs. No rooster, just a little feathered feminist commune in our yard.

On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted - The Paris Review I, for instance, elect to walk on certain streets, not others. The elevator doors slide open, and there’s one man inside: I evaluate his size against mine, calculating how well, if I had to, I could f...

This essay by R.O. Kwon speaks deeply to me. The writing is taut and strong, the subject and questions are honest and important.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Graphic of MLK on a yellow background- text reads - we must accept infinite disappointment but never lose hope.

Here’s what I did this weekend: wrote, revised, submitted - my usual and favorite topic: female bodily autonomy, sexual politics and motherhood as a political act.
This is my spiritual and political self care for today.

A, B,C, and D go on for MONTHS.

Yes! I’ll keep this vision in my mind ✍️

Thank you Judith! It was a process to figure out how the two time periods could coexist in the piece - like life - somehow it was eventually comes together.

Whore Mother by Elissa Lash Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash

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This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world

Would love to be added to this amazable list

Three book covers: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis which is dark blue with abstract cloudy shapes in red, yellow and gray, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, thick yellow letters stacked vertically spell the title on a cream background and Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s Halfway from Home which has a peach colored cover with brick red flame shapes on the bottom, white crescent shapes falling like leaves and blue tendrils like veins at the top of the image.

When I’m stuck I read. These three brave books live on my nightstand. These writers light the way for telling hard stories, sharing big truth, going deep.
Coming soon my newest essay: Mother Whore.
Feeling fear but publishing it anyway.

Just finished the memoir - Hell if We Don’t Change Our Ways by Britney Means. Currently reading Priestdaddy (also memoir) by Patricia Lockwood.

Love Danzy Senna’s writing. Try her other book, Caucasia too!

A multi-colored quilt; purple, teal, red, cream reading What if Women Ruled the World made by artist Judy Chicago, hanging on the wall of the the New Museum in NYC. There is an orange and a blue Venus de Willensdorf fertility statues in front of the quilt.

What if ……..?

Instinct all the way!
If there’s a better way to find it - I’m all ears.

Three books: In the Dream House, Put From Under, and Live Nude Girls with my white ceramic empty coffee mug. My laptop and a pottery owl made by my daughter equals my messy writing desk.

Oh books, I love you so! When I’m stuck. When I’m lonely. When I’m out of ideas. When I’m worried about the world. Books remind me of the human capacity to dream, to create, to examine, to imagine.

Oh god, please let us not go backwards 🙏 more stories for more kids needed. Less kids are reading books. We need diverse stories, diverse words, diverse characters so kids can find themselves in books.

Brightly colored cover of Patricia Lockwood’s memoir PriestDaddy with rays of turquoise pink and red emanating from the title. Quotes on top note that it’s one of the best memoirs of 2017 according to NYT book review and WaPo and Ny Mag.

I can’t believe I’m just digging into this delectable memoir now!
Vivid, funny,engrossing. I want to be the narrator’s best friend- and because of the way it is written - I feel like I already am. Also reread her viral poem, Rape Joke published in The Awl in 2013. Now more than ever, read it!

I LOVE your book. Yes, both desperately sad and also funny.
It is dog eared, highlighted and has a chocolate fingerprint - all signs of my adoration.

Happy to be here.

“Blue
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me.”
Joni Mitchell