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Nancy Reddy's avatar

Ahhh that's horrible!! Romper has done such beautiful, important work on mothering. And who the f knows? is truly the only honest way to end any kind of parenting advice!

Sarah Wheeler's avatar

amen. it's basically the thesis of my book :)

Sherisa de Groot's avatar

Romper was a really wonderful place on the internet. I won the People’s Choice award for Raising Mothers a few years back and the support from April and Elizabeth was truly rare.

Sarah Wheeler's avatar

I'm so glad to hear you say that. I also wonder about where we can find representation and broad voices in the parenting discourse, so we don't believe that one small micro-culture's experience is the ONLY experience.

Tracy Clark-Flory's avatar

Nooo. Wtf. I’m so sorry.

Sarah Wheeler's avatar

thanks pal. more time to focus on our platonic cruising instruction manual!

Tracy Clark-Flory's avatar

this zine needs to happen.

Ruth Whippman's avatar

Oh no so sorry Sarah- this truly sucks

Amanda Montei's avatar

Oh no! Terrible news!

Rebecca Woolf's avatar

Thank you for this. 😭❤️ I have adored working with Elizabeth and everyone at Romper and am crushed.

Sarah Wheeler's avatar

and your writing there has been so tremendous! i would read sex and the single mom all by itself. substack???

Rebecca Woolf's avatar

That’s what I’m gonna try to do! Thank you for the support! Please let me know how I can support you as well. (ED: I dream of pulling all of these amazing writers together and starting our own fuckin parenting site!)

Jacs Zimmerman's avatar

If you do that, please hire me to do your web design!

Asha Dornfest's avatar

Rebecca! Sarah! I’m so sorry to hear this.

Cindy DiTiberio's avatar

ugh, hadn't heard this and just pinged Meaghan about my column idea again today. Interesting timing. Such a bummer. I loved what they were doing. Every time one of these places shutters, I think about trying to recreate it here on Substack.

Anna Pulley's avatar

ahh man, that's crap news - but here's to finding other ways to getting the message(s) out.

Sab's avatar

No!! Why does all the good internet always go away 😭

Kathryn Barbash, PsyD's avatar

This is so sad. I enjoy Romper so much. What a loss.