Female Lives

on Planet Earth

Welcome to a community of secrets—

a community of wishes, hexes, jokes & love notes, of lives and souls open beyond visible dimensions.

This site is a sister project to the book Female Life on Planet Earth, in which the primary currency between women is secrets (and the stories that come alive from them.)

Tell a secret and lighten your conscience.

Take a secret and know you are not alone.

All women— cis and trans, from ages 2 to 102, speaking in any language— are invited to share a secret.

Laleh Khadivi is a writer, teacher, mother, and former filmmaker. Her work and teaching open up conversations around feminism, nationalism, cities, transglobal identities and belonging. She lives in Oakland, CA with her excellent family and two good dogs.

Sam McGinnis is a queer writer, maker, and organizer. They are passionate about local mutual aid work, lesbian archives, queer ecologies, fiber arts, and experimental curatorial practice. They live in Oakland, CA with a garden and two perfect cats.