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Tracy Clark-Flory

@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social
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Journalist. Essayist. Author of MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER: FINDING MYSELF IN MY FAMILY’S FRACTURED PAST (May 5, 3026) and WANT ME. 📕 Preorder my book: bit.ly/MyMothersDaughter

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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Los Angeles! Tomorrow night, May 15th, I’ll be talking about my new book MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER: FINDING MYSELF IN MY FAMILY’S FRACTURED PAST with Koa Beck, author of WHITE FEMINISM, at Skylight Books at 7 PM. Make sure to RSVP! www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...
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At Skylight: Tracy Clark-Flory presents MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER w/ Koa Beck | Skylight Books
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Bay Area & San Francisco friends! I'm doing a very special event tomorrow for MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER with @Savala Nolan, author of GOOD WOMAN, at Green Apple Books. This Thursday, May 14, at 7 pm. I hope to see you there—and be sure to rsvp! greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I had the great pleasure of attending @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social's launch party last night for her new book, "My Mother's Daughter." I can't recommend it enough—a remarkable story, beautifully written. Memoir is not easy to do well. Don't miss this one! www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Mot...
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My Mother's Daughter
From the journalist and author of Want Me (an NPR Best Book of the Year) comes a “tender, revelatory, and deeply moving” (Amanda Montei, Touched Ou...
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Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social is on Modern Love discussing her latest book, My Mother's Daughter. We can't wait to host her on May 14 with Savala Nolan. Event details in thread.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/04/2026
As a teen, my mother gave up a kid in circumstances very much like those of the mother in this discussion, and I went the first twelve years of my life not knowing I had an older brother. So this discussion feels familiar. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/p...
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My Mom Had a Secret Daughter. I Finally Found Her.
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Feminist Science @feministscience.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A must listen too by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social www.direstraightspod.com/p/they-sent-... My Catholic great-grandmother was sent away in the 1920s, & was coerced into relinquishing her daughter for adoption. She later married, had children, and struggled with life-long alcoholism.
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They sent my mom away to become a good wife
Listen now (61 mins) | We talk about Tracy's new memoir, 'My Mother's Daughter,' the shame we inherit from our mothers in patriarchy, and how 1960s maternity homes tried to turn single pregnant women ...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social and Kate Schatz discuss research, reuniting with their siblings, and trying to capture the history of reproductive rights.
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Writing About Life in America Before Roe v. Wade, in Fiction and in Memoir
Last fall, a mutual friend told Tracy Clark-Flory and Kate Schatz that they desperately needed to know each other. They both were feminist writers who lived in the Bay Area and had books coming out…
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I have been excited for this book ever since @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social narrated the bones of her story to me last spring! What a gift to gain a sister after losing their mother twice over. www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Mot...
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My Mother's Daughter
From the journalist and author of Want Me (an NPR Best Book of the Year) comes a “tender, revelatory, and deeply moving” (Amanda Montei, Touched Ou...
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Nightmare Before “Chris”tmas @justokonline.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just read @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on Pedro Pascal, our last best hope for mankind.
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What is 'Pedro-masculinity'?
It's the antithesis of ugly and aggressive petro-masculinity, sure, but it's also another narrow box. Let's not reduce Pedro Pascal's goodness to 'masculinity.'
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
On grief, memory, mothering, mountains and all the water that connects our bodies to the earth -- by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social, which hit my heart this morning like a ... cybertruck. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...
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A nature-loving Cybertruck driver
And moms as mountains.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
impossible to know where to begin about porn scholar Linda Williams, one of the greatest to ever do it. I've kept a highlighter tucked inside my copy of HARD CORE since I got it used years ago, my first intro to her brilliant, defiant scholarship dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/f...
a photo of my copy of HARD CORE by Linda Williams
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"Perry is one of many reactionary feminists who occasionally point to real problems in young women’s lives while offering false solutions, and I’m afraid that it’s an unfortunately effective source of radicalization." @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social
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Do not buy this book for your teenage daughter
Louise Perry's YA book is a case study in how disillusioned young women are being sold traditional 'family values' alongside claims of 'feminism.' It's like if J.D. Vance taught sex ed.
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Manuel Betancourt @bmanuel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Really loved this piece by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on the malleability of love in HELLO STRANGER and other recent books.
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What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My valentine to you: an interrogation of love. What even *is it* anymore? What about the possibilities of “fleeting intimacies,” erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of -e-? tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/what-even-...
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What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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hannah eve @hannaheve.com · 14/02/2025
"I find myself asking: What isn’t love? What isn’t eros?" @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social offers some commentary on a growing body of work related to desire, eroticism, longing, intimacy, and transformative relationship dynamics beyond traditional monogamy. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...
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What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Turns out a “sex robot” can be a perfect metaphor for being socialized as a woman in this world. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...
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Programmed to please
'Companion' is a sci-fi thriller about a 'sex robot' who perfectly reflects the realities of being socialized as a woman.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“I would appreciate having an index of my obsessions at any time, but right now it feels like a lifeline. In the midst of so much cruelty and hatred—so much anti-intellectualism—that index feels like a reminder of those things I want to hold onto: passion, curiosity, inspiration, and connection.”
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A catalog of obsessions
Keeping a commonplace book in uncommon times.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Coolcoolcoooolll.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We’re in the midst of a resurgence of right-wing erotic nostalgia not just for the 1950s housewife but also a pre-MeToo era of unapologetic objectification. tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
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Make America Objectify Women Again
Conservatives are claiming certain women's bodies and sex appeal as an anti-woke political symbol while *oh-so-bravely* celebrating men's desire.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A review of straight culture in 2024—from narratives of women busting out of domesticity to conservative interpretations of polyamory. tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/the-year-o...
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The year of hetero discontent
From sex strikes to divorce memoirs, a review of straight culture in 2024.
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hannah eve @hannaheve.com · 24/11/2024
a fascinating topic — how people are feeling about sex and desire post-election
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I asked people where they’re at post-election w/sex, desire, and their bodies. Just a sampling: “Our queer sex is liberation, our pleasure a big middle-finger to the cultural forces & people who voted against our interests or want to see us extinguished.” tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/queer-plea...
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Queer pleasure is 'a big middle-finger'
Also: 'Don’t think I’m touching a man anytime soon.’ Post-election, I asked where you're at when it comes to sex, desire, and your body. Here's what you said.
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I made a #BayArea starter pack, heavy on writers and book people. Please let me know who I've missed so I can add them! go.bsky.app/5eFo1ir
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We are worked to death in the United States. It pits us against one another. Thank you @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social for interviewing me about 4B separatism, heteropessimism, and more tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/a-feminist...
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A feminist utopianism
Sophie Lewis argues against the 'fatalism' of both 4B and heteropessimism, and calls for a collective movement built on solidarity.
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
“[4B] in the South Korean context is explicitly girl-boss-ish in flavor, and very anti-socialist. It's about wealth and achievement and individually breaking the glass ceiling. There's not even a relationship with a movement of revolutionary ambition.” tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/a-feminist...
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A feminist utopianism
Sophie Lewis argues against the 'fatalism' of both 4B and heteropessimism, and calls for a collective movement built on solidarity.
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