Lorraine Berry

Lorraine Berry has written for Signature, The Guardian (UK), LitHub, Catapult, Diagram, Redbook, Marie Claire, Salon, Paste, Electric Literature, and other outlets. After teaching creative nonfiction for years, she moved to Florida to be close to her widowed mother, where she hangs out with the pelicans and herons. Follow her on Twitter @BerryFLW.

No Thanks, Lysistrata

Lorraine Berry

You say you want a revolution? Well, Lysistrata seemed like a good idea at the time, but please count me out.

Did I Kill My Baby Boy? And If I Had Been in Mississippi, Would I Be Facing Prison?

Lorraine Berry

If I had lived in Mississippi in 1996, would I have dared go to the hospital when I suffered a miscarriage? And if I had, would I be facing prison?

HR 358, The Let Women Die Act of 2011, Is Tantamount to Legal Rape

Lorraine Berry

When it comes down to it, these laws represent legal rape. If rape is the insertion of an object into the body of an unwilling person, then what else can you call laws insisting that a woman submit to pregnancy regardless of her age, the circumstances under which she became pregnant, her health, or her general well-being?

My Confession: My Hysterectomy Was the Right Choice (for me)

Lorraine Berry

I was told, before I had my hysterectomy, that I was a traitor to feminism and a bad person. I'm here now, five years later, to tell you that my hysterectomy was the best medical decision I've ever made.

Dear Congress: Women and Children (and Men) are Starving

Lorraine Berry

I worked at the food bank last night. In an hour, we fed 15 percent of the population of the small, rural town in which I live.

Ordaining a Woman Equals Raping a Child

Lorraine Berry

Vatican declares today that ordination of women is among gravest of sins. It is now in the same category as child molestation.

Since When Are TERRORISTS allowed to give Press Interviews?

Lorraine Berry

Why is the man who murdered Dr. Tiller being allowed to give interviews from jail?

Please do not forget us. Again. Like You Did Last Time.

Lorraine Berry

In our determination to wipe out terrorist cells in Afghanistan, can we please make sure we do not destroy the lives of the Afghani women?

Let’s push a watermelon through your anus. Now that’s a good chap.

Lorraine Berry

An ob/gyn in England thinks the pain of childbirth is good for women. I have a modest proposal for him.

Lorraine Berry

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