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Elissa Strauss

Oakland

Writer at Freelance

Parenting & caregiving is a wild, profound ride that men ignored forever so I wrote a book about it for @gallerybooks: "When You Care"

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  • 1 week ago | slate.com | Elissa Strauss

    Family Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I’m a #boymom who’s experienced very little envy of #girlmoms. Maybe it’s because neither of my sons fits neatly into a stereotypical boy identity. Or maybe it’s because I’m the younger sister of two older brothers, and guys feel like home. The occasional longings for a girl were mostly minor. Braiding hair. Frilly dresses. Fruity, shimmery lip balm.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Elissa Strauss

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I’m a #boymom who’s experienced very little envy of #girlmoms. Maybe it’s because neither of my sons fits neatly into a stereotypical boy identity. Or maybe it’s because I’m the younger sister of two older brothers, and guys feel like home. The occasional longings for a girl were mostly minor. Braiding hair. Frilly dresses. Fruity, shimmery lip balm. One, however, was major.

  • 1 month ago | latimes.com | Elissa Strauss

    My first meaningful brush with the Hero’s Journey took place in 11th-grade English class. Our teacher read us Henry David Thoreau on leaving home and heading out on one’s own in order to find wisdom and transcendence, and to avoid being one of the mass of men leading “lives of quiet desperation.” Her deepened voice underscored the gravity of these words.

  • 1 month ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Elissa Strauss

    All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by Glamour editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Getty/Glamour designNo type of feminism—not the sex-positive variety I experienced in college nor the reproductive rights battles I participated in later on—got in my gullet like the “Lean In” feminism of the early 2010s.

  • 2 months ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers |Elissa Strauss

    Hello everyone!It’s been a crazy few weeks for my family and I with an international move coming up, but I am so pleased to finally be releasing this wonderful interview with Elissa Strauss, author of When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others and the writer behind the popular Substack newsletter MADE WITH CARE (you can sign up for that here).

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Elissa Strauss
Elissa Strauss @elissaavery
30 Apr 25

RT @onedailynugget: Let’s consider parenting from a philosophical perspective. In today’s nugget, @elissaavery wonders whether the empathy…

Elissa Strauss
Elissa Strauss @elissaavery
10 Jan 25

RT @BetterLifeLab: JAN. 16 ONLINE: Our director @BrigidSchulte will be discussing her book Over Work in a virtual event with the @AspenInst…

Elissa Strauss
Elissa Strauss @elissaavery
8 Jan 25

RT @nathanielpopper: This week, I'm joining a media company I have long admired, @business. I'll be working as an editor, helping to hand…