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On Reading "Bad Mother" in China

A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:

Within the seething morass of second guesses and good intentions that is the mind of a parent, there shines one beckoning truth: that everything is your fault. When your kids are late, you're the driver. When they're hungry, you're without snacks. When they're quarantined in China, you put them on the plane. And when that single truth paralyzes all others, what you need most is company. And this is why I'm glad that Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, as the New York Times Style section put it on Sunday, "write it all down" ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

Kicking Off the XX Gabfest

This week, Hanna, Meghan, and I inaugurated the Double X weekly podcast, called the "XX Gabfest" in tribute to some of our Slate offerings, the "Political Gabfest" and the "Culture Gabfest." We hashed out our thoughts about Obama's speech on abortion at Notre Dame, Nancy Pelosi's troubles, and... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)