Lois Ruskai Melina (she/her) is a writer, retired educator, and former journalist. Her essay collection, The Grammar of Untold Stories, was published in 2020. She is the author of three books on adoption published by HarperCollins. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two dogs.
When the Wall of Moms joined the Black Lives Matter protests this summer in my home city of Portland, Oregon, to demand
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I’m a 70-year-old woman with a history of infertility. I’m the adoptive mother of two. I don’t have a personal story to tell about abortion. I’m not worried about my future access to abortion. But the right to an abortion
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I’m a 70-year-old woman with a history of infertility. I’m the adoptive mother of two. I don’t have a personal story to tell about abortion. I’m not worried about my future access
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When the Wall of Moms joined the Black Lives Matter protests this summer in my home city of Portland, Oregon, to demand police reform, they became part of a history of women
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