A manifesto for middle age
Kaya Oakes seeks the wisdom of women who are young, old, crazy, barren, butch, femme, angry, other, and alone
In Review
The Defiant Middle
How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World
Broadleaf
“How are your children?” asked a colleague. We hadn’t seen each other in person for a while due to the pandemic.
I stared at him. “I don’t have children,” I reminded him. “In fact, I’m writing a book about being childless.”
“Oh,” he said. “I wonder why I thought you had them.”
