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Tracy Clark-Flory

Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist, essayist, and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for Cosmopolitan, The Cut, ELLE, Esquire, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, WIRED, Women’s Health, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at Jezebel and a staff writer at Salon. She writes a weekly newsletter and cohosts Dire Straights, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture. Learn more at TracyClarkFlory.com.

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My Mom Broke the Rules, My Grandmother Followed Them—Both Paid for It

Ahead of Mother’s Day and her new book, My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past, writer Tracy Clark-Flory unpacks the fraught history between sex and safety.

May 4, 2026