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.
Maria can be reached at Maria[dot]Reppas@gmail[dot]com
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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Why Marie Kondo Failed to Spark Permanent Joy”, Ms. Magazine, February 3, 2023
- “The cost of degrading minimum-wage workers”, Iowa Capital Dispatch, March 28, 2023
- “I Grew Up in Cedar Falls. ‘Polite Bigotry’ Is the Norm”, Iowa Starting Line, May 3, 2023
- “Getting an ADHD diagnosis as an adult helped my Iowa schooling make sense”, Des Moines Register, August 13, 2023
- “Understanding the unique challenges of adult ADHD”, Iowa Public Radio, September 12, 2023
- “Where does Iowa go from here?”, Iowa Capital Dispatch, January 5, 2024
- “Having an old dad had its disadvantages. My father was 50 when I was born, so I missed out on a lot.”, Business Insider, February 6, 2024