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s.e. smith is a Northern California-based journalist, essayist, author, and critic who explores contemporary culture and topics around labor, disability, technology, feminism, death and dying, and animal welfare. smith's cultural criticism and reported features have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Esquire, and The Nation, and were recognized with a National Magazine Award in 2020 in Columns and Commentary for the “An Unquiet Mind” column in Catapult Magazine. Their forthcoming book, All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning (HarperOne, 2026), explores death, dying, and conversations about loss; smith’s work also appears in num ...more

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	Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong (Editor), Harriet McBryde Johnson (Contributor), Talila A. Lewis (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 18,526 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Don't] Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Victoria Schwab (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 2,383 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong (Editor), Maria Town (Contributor), John Lee Clark (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 1,777 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong (Editor), Maysoon Zayid (Contributor), Ariel Henley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 731 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future by Alexandra Brodsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), S.E. Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Ortile (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nina Riggs (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning 3.99 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Get Out of My Crotch: Twenty-One Writers Respond to America's War on Women's Rights and Reproductive Health by Kim Wyatt (Editor), Sari Botton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joshunda Sanders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women, Health, and Healthcare: Readings on Social, Structural, and Systemic Issues by Elizabeth Cabell Gathman, S.E. Smith (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Knowing that a loss is coming, bracing for that loss, having deep conversations that may be informed by social or cultural or spiritual beliefs, is not the same thing as going through that loss.”
― S.E. Smith, All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

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“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

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“Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant

tags: humorous

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“I'm sorry about dragging you into my evil schemes with my masculine wiles. I didn't realise, um, the force of my own wiliness. I don't actually use my wiles a lot.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Surrender

tags: humour

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“When people say "there are other fish in the sea" I say "fuck you, she was my sea.”
― J. Faulkner

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“Whatever is happening here, it definitely bypassed go and went straight to really fucking weird without collecting two hundred dollars.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

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