Rachelle's Reading List: Friday, October 31st, 2014

Congratulations are in order for The Li.st's Rachel Sklar. Read her candid article on Medium about being single, 41 and knocked up! "Hello, I’m Rachel. I’m 41, single and pregnant. Taken together, these three elements tend to act as sad little modifiers for each other. “Single” is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed. “41” is usually past the age when people consider your problem fixable (let’s just say the concerned clucking about when I would get married and have kids ended abruptly at 40). “Pregnant” — well, everyone seems to have ideas about what women ought to be doing with their uteri." "I know how it looks: at 41, single and pregnant, I’m a sad, lonely outlier. But it’s 2014. I’m not." [See also: You Should Know: Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol] [Photo via @rachelsklar]