Aimee Christian

Dec 2, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Douglas Field |Aimee Christian |Julia Preston |Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Happy Messes,” by .

Nov 26, 2024 | therumpus.net | Aimee Christian

Aimee, listen closely. First. You will meet your mother. This will not solve all your problems, though you wish it would, and this will be a pitfall so deep it will nearly cost you your relationship. But she will look like you and smell like you and talk and walk and move like you.

Jul 28, 2023 | wbur.org | Aimee Christian

CommentaryI loved Sinéad for her wild courage and rageSinead O'Connor (1966 - 2023) performs at the Torhout/Werchter Festival in Torhout, Belgium on July 7, 1990. (Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)In 1992, even in New York City, it did not feel safe to question my sexuality. It was another world then. I was 19 and living on my own with the whole city outside my tiny apartment, and all I knew was that inside of me, a storm was raging. Sinéad O’Connor helped me understand what it was.