Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
For the little girl who wanted to play with trucks but the teacher said no, those are for boys. For the girls denied making a gun rack, shelf, or fire-place poker in industrial arts, instead forced to make a poached egg and apron in home economics. For all the girls called tomboys, and wondering why. For all the kids who have heard: you play like a girl, cry like a girl, act like
The year Elvis died, without asking I got a baby blue t-shirt with a stupid feminist slogan, from a cheesy tourist shop on a rundown boardwalk in Maine that sold thousands of useless things to families that couldn’t afford them. Make no mistake about it: I didn’t want it. My parents wanted me to have it, their oldest daughter, and a funny t-shirt that nobody thought was funny except for them. I would
An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...
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