Nellie Bowles
@NellieBowles
Cult member of The Free Press (@TheFP) where I write the very important TGIF column. Author of a new book, Morning After The Revolution. Trad wife, mother.
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.Nellie Bowles: 'An older white woman whom I’ll call Stacy had confessed to the group that she was ashamed of being white, and that she hoped in her next life she wouldn’t be white anymore. This provided us with a major learning moment. One participant began by amping herself up,
If you want to know how everyone seemed to lose their minds over these past few years, there's a book you must read: MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
It's by a writer I know named Nellie Bowles and the first excerpt is now up in The Atlantic...
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
'What if fighting for justice could just be a years-long confessional process and didn’t require doing anything tangible at all?' Nellie Bowles writes. 'What if I could defeat white supremacy from my lovely living room, over tea, with other white people?' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Excited to share my first piece for The Free Press in which I talk to Brian Armstrong DHH & Jason Fried about When Silicon Valley Stopped Trying to Save the World | The Free Press thefp.com/p/when-silicon…
Introducing The Front Page newsletter from The FP and @OllyWiseman. In the first edition:
→Allie Phillips: “My unborn baby was dying—but I couldn’t get an abortion.”
→Abigail Shrier: Why 1 in 10 kids has an ADHD diagnosis.
→ #MeTooManDown and so much more: thefp.pub/4bh5Gxw
Pre-ordered, but I’d buy Nellie Bowles “To Do” list if she published it. (Come to think of it, that would probably be fascinating.)
Things Worth Remembering: Allan Bloom on the ‘Charmed Years’ of College. The Free Press thefp.com/p/things-worth…