THE PENNY PUB

Standing Up for My Creative Life Against Critical Voices

My mother’s voice and my own

Jen Lorrie
The Penny Pub
Published in
4 min readJun 11, 2024

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A girl in side profile looking at a candle she is holding.
Photo by Katie Gerrard on Unsplash

In 1993, the legendary rock band Aerosmith released an album called Get a Grip. The cover featured a photo of a cow’s udder. A hoop piercing dangled from one teat — hopefully photoshopped — and the band’s signature wings were stamped on the cow’s thigh, as though to brand…

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Jen Lorrie
The Penny Pub

Reader and writer. Begrudging decaf drinker. I studied English Literature and I still love books.