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Hayley DeRoche
Hayley DeRoche is a librarian, mother by way of birth and foster care, and the author of HELLO LOVELIES!: A NOVEL. She also runs the Unruly Retreat, a free writing retreat for moms and caregivers on her farm outside Richmond, Virginia. (Yes, she would like a nap.)
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August 24, 2021The Little House Books, Revised So They Aren’t So Racist
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February 5, 2020Baby-Sitters Club Characters, Ranked In Order of How Likely They Are to Start a True Crime Podcast That Preys On White Women’s Fears and Props Up the Prison Industrial Complex
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December 19, 2019It’s A Marriage Story, Charlie Brown!
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October 17, 201911 Ways You Are Superior to VSCO Girls
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October 11, 2019Books You Want Your Child to Buy at the Book Fair and the Books They Are Absolutely Bringing Home Instead
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September 24, 2019How to Nurse Your Goddamn Baby in Public So Bystanders Don’t Complain
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June 20, 2019An Open Letter to Parents Being Harangued to Remember Yet Another Username and Password By Signing Up for the Library Summer Reading Program
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October 6, 2017Six Pillows I Screamed Into After Learning My Preschooler Has to Participate in Active Shooter Intruder Drills
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May 13, 2022A Modest Proposal for Solving the Baby Formula Shortage
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November 13, 2018If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers
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