Maria Reppas
Maria is a government employee and writer. She has been published in the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, New York Daily News, Ms. Magazine, and the Des Moines Register.
Personal Submissions
- “The #MeToo movement doesn’t need Bill Clinton”, Washington Post, October 22, 2018
- “A woman needs fries now and then’: Step inside the lives of 8 everyday women”, The Lily, March 7, 2019
- “Why Your Teen Needs A Summer Job”, Scary Mommy, June 7, 2019
- “Dissatisfied with my education, I wrote a children’s history book for my son”, Des Moines Register, July 31, 2019
- “What Would the Rescue of Jessica McClure Look Like in 2019”, Medium, September 7, 2019
- “Letter: Bigotry”, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, January 5, 2020
- “Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I never met, but she believed in the value of a girl from Iowa”, Des Moines Register, September 26, 2020
- “I stand with Melania Trump: Why should an unpaid first lady have to deal with Christmas decorations, anyway?”, New York Daily News, October 2, 2020
- “Your Young Child Is Incapable Of Sincere Gratitude, And That’s Okay”, Scary Mommy, January 20, 2021
- “Why Most of us Suck at Homeschooling”, Scary Mommy, December 29, 2020
- “Vice President Kamala Harris Can Only Fail Now”, Ms. Magazine, January 29, 2021
- “What real cancel culture looks like: It’s not what Trumpites think”, New York Daily News, January 31, 2021
- “'Iowa Nice' hides a nasty side”, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, March 7, 2021
- “Self-Care Won’t Heal America”, Ms. Magazine, March 10, 2021
- “There is no such thing as 'Iowa Nice'”, Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 3, 2021
- “Newspapers reflect Iowans' bigotry”, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, April 7, 2021
- “What the Derek Chauvin verdict can teach our kids”, New York Daily News, April 21, 2021
- “Women Are Not Safe Until the Criminal Justice System Holds Abusers Accountable”, Ms. Magazine, April 28, 2021
- “Make every day Mother's Day”, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, May 9, 2021
- “Happy Mother's Day to America's social safety net”, Des Moines Register, May 9, 2021
- “America doesn't have a worker shortage. What's missing is a livable wage”, Des Moines Register, June 2, 2021
- “Mom Can Answer All 30 of These Questions. Can Dad?”, Ms. Magazine, June 24, 2021
- “Feminism doesn't need any more 'help' from two-faced men”, Des Moines Register, August 31, 2021
- “I’m the worst kind of Democrat: A limousine liberal sending my kid to private school”, USA Today, September 5, 2021
- “Opinion: bell hooks prompted us to see how biases distort reality and consider intersectional feminism”, Des Moines Register, December 16, 2021
- “Don't mistake Elizabeth Holmes as a shocking outlier”, Des Moines Register, January 14, 2022
- “We let teens fire guns. Why are we afraid to let them read books?”, Iowa Capital Dispatch, February 5, 2022
- “How Iowa can plug its brain drain”, Washington Post, March 17, 2022
- “Abolish the Caucuses”, Newsweek, March 29, 2022
- “To curb mass shootings, take a trip abroad”, New York Daily News, June 2, 2022
- “Pay your interns because they deserve it”, Iowa Capital Dispatch, June 18, 2022
- “An apology to Monica Lewinsky”, New York Daily News, August 13, 2022