Mary Rose Somarriba
Mary Rose is an associate editor for Verily Magazine with over a decade of experience in magazine publishing. She has written articles and organized events on women’s issues for several publications and organizations. Mary Rose is also the editor of Natural Womanhood, and in 2012 she completed a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship on the connections between pornography and sex trafficking.
Among her favorite things in life are Latin dancing, singing karaoke with her husband, taking lazy strolls with her kids, and listening to her favorite local jazz band in Cleveland over wings and a Manhattan.
I Have a Wanted Pregnancy, And Yet I’ve Received Pressure to Un-Want It
Who or what determines quality of life?
What ‘WandaVision’ Gets About Trauma (Even If It Glosses Over the Costs!)
The much-watched Disney+ series tackles an ugly real-life topic, magnified to superhero extremes.
Bebe Rexha’s ‘Jealous’ Reveals a Relatable Issue Many Women Have
A song that legitimizes women’s real frustrations with partners’ porn use
Let’s Stop Acting Like ‘Sex Work’ Is Empowering
The commercial sex industry ignores sex trafficking for a reason; it depends on it.
Our Awkward Semantics About When Life Begins—And What It Means For Women’s Health Care
Conception? Implantation? Birth? The discrepancies of pregnancy definitions
Looking Ahead By Looking Back: Accepting Help
Leaning on others to be freed of negative self-talk and self-pity
What Makes ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ My Favorite Series of the Year (And Even Longer)
A Netflix show that respects the viewer
From the Editor's Desk: Celebrating the Holiday Season in COVID Times
Finding meaning in different packaging
An Expert Explains How to Identify and Combat our Biases
Not all hope is lost for human discourse.
Building Slack into Your Holiday Months
Time management expert Laura Vanderkam’s tips for keeping work from impeding holiday fun
From the Editor's Desk: When Facing People with Different Views Feels Scary
It's not Halloween that’s spooking many of us; it’s Election Day.
Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ Didn’t Have to Participate in Exploitation to Expose It
That the film made it this far shows our culture is already desensitized to the hypersexualization of minors.
Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Thinking Outside the Blame Box
How I learned to toss an unproductive habit
If We Want to Save the Children, Let’s Start with Ourselves
Combating sex trafficking requires detaching ourselves from hypersexualized content of women and young people
From the Editor's Desk: Our Internal Battles for Peace
When surface-level assumptions need greater reflection
Finding Your Corner Office Working from Home
Laura Vanderkam’s new e-book explores how successful people WFH as their best selves
Traction Is Growing Against Sex Trafficking and Porn
From the Jeffrey Epstein documentary to one million signatures to shutdown Pornhub
From the Editor's Desk: Changed Perspective
How looking at things from a different angle can change our views
The Part of Tara Reade’s Story that Megyn Kelly’s Interview Captured
Not all media voices are silent
