Elissa Lash
@elissalash.bsky.social
Writer. Mother. Feminist. Witch. Find my work in The Rumpus, CRAFT, Atticus Review, Tangled Locks, Silver Rose and at my website: Elissalash.com.
Mover. Shaker. Magic Maker.
Working on a memoir about sex work and motherhood.
Mover. Shaker. Magic Maker.
Working on a memoir about sex work and motherhood.
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Our nonfiction story of the month is The Money I Get for my Body by Elissa Lash. @elissalash.bsky.social
The Money I Get for My Body - The Forge Literary Magazine
The Money I Get for My Body, creative nonfiction by Elissa Lash
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July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our nonfiction story of the month is The Money I Get for my Body by Elissa Lash. @elissalash.bsky.social
My recent essay/film critique.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My recent essay/film critique.
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According to my friend, my writing work space is “swanky”.
I’ll take it.
I’ll take it.
April 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
According to my friend, my writing work space is “swanky”.
I’ll take it.
I’ll take it.
Sunday morning. When the world is a dystopian novel, I’m grateful for my chickens. They are fluffy and friendly and give us beautiful eggs. No rooster, just a little feathered feminist commune in our yard.
March 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Sunday morning. When the world is a dystopian novel, I’m grateful for my chickens. They are fluffy and friendly and give us beautiful eggs. No rooster, just a little feathered feminist commune in our yard.
This essay by R.O. Kwon speaks deeply to me. The writing is taut and strong, the subject and questions are honest and important.
On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted - The Paris Review
I, for instance, elect to walk on certain streets, not others. The elevator doors slide open, and there’s one man inside: I evaluate his size against mine, calculating how well, if I had to, I could f...
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January 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This essay by R.O. Kwon speaks deeply to me. The writing is taut and strong, the subject and questions are honest and important.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Here’s what I did this weekend: wrote, revised, submitted - my usual and favorite topic: female bodily autonomy, sexual politics and motherhood as a political act.
This is my spiritual and political self care for today.
This is my spiritual and political self care for today.
January 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Here’s what I did this weekend: wrote, revised, submitted - my usual and favorite topic: female bodily autonomy, sexual politics and motherhood as a political act.
This is my spiritual and political self care for today.
This is my spiritual and political self care for today.
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This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world
This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world
Whore Mother by Elissa Lash
Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash
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December 4, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world
This essay was both hard and easy to write ….. glad to have it on the page and in the world
When I’m stuck I read. These three brave books live on my nightstand. These writers light the way for telling hard stories, sharing big truth, going deep.
Coming soon my newest essay: Mother Whore.
Feeling fear but publishing it anyway.
Coming soon my newest essay: Mother Whore.
Feeling fear but publishing it anyway.
November 26, 2024 at 1:16 PM
When I’m stuck I read. These three brave books live on my nightstand. These writers light the way for telling hard stories, sharing big truth, going deep.
Coming soon my newest essay: Mother Whore.
Feeling fear but publishing it anyway.
Coming soon my newest essay: Mother Whore.
Feeling fear but publishing it anyway.
Oh books, I love you so! When I’m stuck. When I’m lonely. When I’m out of ideas. When I’m worried about the world. Books remind me of the human capacity to dream, to create, to examine, to imagine.
November 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Oh books, I love you so! When I’m stuck. When I’m lonely. When I’m out of ideas. When I’m worried about the world. Books remind me of the human capacity to dream, to create, to examine, to imagine.
I can’t believe I’m just digging into this delectable memoir now!
Vivid, funny,engrossing. I want to be the narrator’s best friend- and because of the way it is written - I feel like I already am. Also reread her viral poem, Rape Joke published in The Awl in 2013. Now more than ever, read it!
Vivid, funny,engrossing. I want to be the narrator’s best friend- and because of the way it is written - I feel like I already am. Also reread her viral poem, Rape Joke published in The Awl in 2013. Now more than ever, read it!
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I can’t believe I’m just digging into this delectable memoir now!
Vivid, funny,engrossing. I want to be the narrator’s best friend- and because of the way it is written - I feel like I already am. Also reread her viral poem, Rape Joke published in The Awl in 2013. Now more than ever, read it!
Vivid, funny,engrossing. I want to be the narrator’s best friend- and because of the way it is written - I feel like I already am. Also reread her viral poem, Rape Joke published in The Awl in 2013. Now more than ever, read it!
Happy to be here.
“Blue
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me.”
Joni Mitchell
“Blue
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me.”
Joni Mitchell
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Happy to be here.
“Blue
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me.”
Joni Mitchell
“Blue
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me.”
Joni Mitchell