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The Liberation Letters

You Can’t Optimize Your Way Out of Fascism (or white supremacy, which is the same thing)

Why Constant Self-Improvement Will Never Protect You

Jan 21 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

What's Missing From the Trad Wife Trend Convo

Source: Getty Images via apartmenttherapy.com If you had asked me a week ago if I knew what a trad wife was, I would have stared at you with a…

Apr 3, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

When They Gut Your Voting Rights and You Still Have to Make Dinner

On surviving a system that wants you too tired to fight

May 19 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

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What's Missing From the Trad Wife Trend Convo

Apr 3, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

How Racism Forced Women to Choose Between Personhood and Motherhood

Mar 3, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Where Do We Go From Here?

Nov 7, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Should We Sip Our Coffee and Watch The World Burn?

Nov 30, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Why Gatekeeping Black History Month is a Trap

Feb 20 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

I don't know what else to do

Oct 25, 2024 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Is Motherhood Inherently Oppressive—Or Have We Been Conditioned to Accept an Oppressive Version of It?

I open my email to yet another notification of someone who has unsubscribed from my Substack.

May 8 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

It's Not WFH Culture—It's Expecting Women to Work Like Men

We’ve been here before.

Apr 22 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Another Birthday, Same Questions

I'm 36 today, and nothing has changed. Perhaps it never will?

Apr 11 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

On Trying to Be Free in a Burning World

Nothing feels very liberating right now.

Apr 7 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

I Tried to Protect My Daughter from My Insecurities. It Wasn’t Enough.

On the terrifying reality of raising a child in a culture that profits from our self-loathing—and how we reclaim our brilliance together.

Mar 13 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

Why Gatekeeping Black History Month is a Trap

Why the "Foundational Black American" debate is breaking my heart.

Feb 20 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

If I Throw My Dreams Away, So Will They

Why I told my girls I refuse to disappear

Feb 17 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

I'm writing about liberation with a clenched jaw

An honest look at the messy reality of resisting a system while living inside it.

Feb 12 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

We Warned You: The Cost of Always Being Right.

On the burden of always being right—and the revolutionary act of walking away

Feb 4 • Caroline J. Sumlin | Author

The Liberation Letters

The Liberation Letters

A collection of personal essays, cultural criticism, and reflections on liberation, healing, and decolonizing the beliefs that shape how we live, love, work, and dream.

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