Dana DuBois | I Write Out Loud

Dana DuBois | I Write Out Loud

I Write Out Loud

I Took My Teens to a Speed Dating Event
What would Carrie Bradshaw do?
 • Dana DuBois
How Do We Speak to Our Teen Daughters About Ariana?
We taught our girls not to comment on women's bodies. Nobody taught us what to do when a woman's body is telling us something's wrong.
 • Dana DuBois
Nothing Compares to Sinéad
May she sleep with a clear conscience, may she sleep in peace.
 • Dana DuBois
Me and Amy Winehouse
On the 15th anniversary of her untimely death, I think of Amy. We had challenging fathers with the same name. Only one of us got the years to outgrow…
 • Dana DuBois
I Got Botox. Does That Make Me a Hypocrite?
Reconciling self-acceptance with a little help from a syringe.
 • Dana DuBois
The Condom on the Other Side of the Bed
Platner’s ex-girlfriend just accused him of stealthing her. Not sure what that means? I wasn’t either—even when it happened to me.
 • Dana DuBois
The United States Hates Women: Four Years After Roe
They called us hysterical. Then Roe fell, the SAVE Act came for our votes, and no one apologized. Four years on, the pattern is impossible to unsee.
 • Dana DuBois
An Ambivalent Jew Returns to Germany for Taylor Swift
I feel echoes of what once happened here. My daughters felt nothing, till I showed them — and they showed me.
 • Dana DuBois
GenX Women: We've Entered Our Widower Era
Turns out I've accidentally become an expert in dating widowers.
 • Dana DuBois
The Father I Got vs. The Father Dementia Gave Me
What happens when the man who scared you becomes the man who needs you?
 • Dana DuBois
My Child Came Out as Genderfluid. Then They... Went Back In
We need to normalize gender exploration as a part of coming of age.
 • Dana DuBois
I'm Not Proud of My Child for Coming Out
Gender is only the beginning of all that they are…
 • Dana DuBois
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