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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

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

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

Laptop in front of a big window looking out over a mossy yard, also I have a lot of notebooks, pens and glasses cases!

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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.

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.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. 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. (1/3)

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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.

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

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

chicagostorypress.com/f/whore-moth... This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world

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Whore Mother by Elissa Lash

Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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.

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.

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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.

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.

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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!

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.

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Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

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