Cover Photo: A photograph of a woman with her back to the camera and facing a brick wall, wearing a white sports bra and  black exercise bottoms and lifting a large barbell above her head.
Photograph by John Arano/Unsplash

After Childbirth and Prolapse, I Turned to Weight Lifting

As a mother, feeling strong requires different abilities than the ones I had before becoming a parent.

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Sarah Stoller is a freelance writer and historian of women, work, and feminism. She completed her PhD on the history of working parenthood at UC Berkeley.