Aubrey Hirsch is the author of Why We Never Talk About Sugar, a collection of short stories, and This Will Be His Legacy, a flash fiction chapbook. Her stories, essays and comics have appeared widely in print and online in places like American Short Fiction, The New York Times, The Nib, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, The Toast,Brain, Child Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Florida Review, and in the New York Times Bestselling anthology, Not That Bad.
Aubrey earned her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she worked as a teaching assistant teaching first-year composition courses as well as introductory courses in creative writing and fiction writing. She has also taught writing and literature courses in BA and MFA programs at Chatham University, Georgia College and State University, The Colorado College and Oberlin College.
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Wow! "Men who get angry are seen as powerful, passionate and righteous. Angry women are crazy, emotional and unreliable." So f-in true. Story of my life. We are taught/trained to doubt our truth so even we think we are crazy, emotional and unreliable.
OMG this hit me right in the feels. Having a "hard time" and feeling "sad, frustrated" today and if I felt safe enough I think I am really just angry and pissed off, but I have never really been able to feel that -- too dangerous. This is so good.