Ladyparts by Deborah Copaken

Ladyparts by Deborah Copaken

In this space, I aim to share the honest and raw experiences of living, working, loving, and navigating life in a woman's body, while also including perspectives from all human bodies, including male and nonbinary. Here, you'll find stories that mainstream publications often overlook, deeming them unimportant, trivial, or unsuitable for their pages.

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  • 2 weeks ago | deborahcopaken.substack.com | Deborah Copaken

    It’s been a little over a month since my friend Andrea Blaugrund Nevins—documentary filmmaker, feminist, mother, wife, poet, writer, community creator, optimist, and unfailingly kind human being—died too young of metastatic breast cancer.

  • 1 month ago | deborahcopaken.substack.com | Deborah Copaken

    When she was in high school, Susan Dominus’ brother Andrew “bullied” her—her choice of verb—into starting a school newspaper. Today she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times. In her spare time, she teaches journalism at Yale. You know, no biggie.

  • 1 month ago | deborahcopaken.substack.com | Deborah Copaken

    It has been said—note the passive voice—that the five biggest stressors in life are 1) the death of a family member; 2) divorce or relational rupture; 3) major illness or injury; 4) losing one’s job; and 5) moving. Like some of you, I’ve experienced all of these, sometimes a couple of them simultaneously. In fact, a few times these adverse life events fell one on top of the other in groups of threes or fours: a veritable stress cascade which, in turn, put my body at greater risk for disease.

  • 2 months ago | deborahcopaken.substack.com | Deborah Copaken

    I’ve spent the past two weeks packing up my apartment into boxes for a big move—more on that in my next missive—but in the meantime, I have some wild and wholly unexpected news. I am as surprised as you are to announce that this publication—which I write on my couch, in my bed, and in my favorite IKEA chair—was just nominated for a ! I first learned of this honor in the bowels of Kleinfeld’s, where I was accompanying my daughter for her final wedding dress fitting before she graduates med school.

  • 2 months ago | deborahcopaken.substack.com | Deborah Copaken

    If I told you how many hours my daughter and I each spent searching every corner of the internet for the right “vibe” of tablecloth over these past several months, you might wonder, as she recently did, why bother? Why bother to care about whether or not we add a runner to a tablescape in a hellscape?