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  <title>5=3 Journal</title>
  <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/index.html</link>
  <description>Essays and stories from the 5=3 project: the formula, the cities, the materials, and the people behind a travelling street-art project supporting women after miscarriage and pregnancy loss.</description>
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  <lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>A Week Across Northern Germany</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/a-week-across-northern-germany.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/a-week-across-northern-germany.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>One week, four cities: Berlin, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Hanover.</description>
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      <title>Stickers for the Students of Salzburg</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/stickers-for-salzburg.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/stickers-for-salzburg.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>At a summer academy near Salzburg, stickers instead of a plaque.</description>
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      <title>Grieving a Pregnancy Loss: What Actually Helps</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-actually-helps-after-a-loss.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-actually-helps-after-a-loss.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Not medical advice — just what women in this community have said, over and over, actually helped them carry a loss.</description>
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      <title>From an Instagram Caption to a Street in Twenty Countries</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/from-instagram-to-the-street.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/from-instagram-to-the-street.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a single Instagram post in 2024 turned into a real-world street-art project anyone can stumble across.</description>
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      <title>A Plaque as a Birthday Gift: Anna's Second Trip to Tel Aviv</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/a-birthday-plaque-in-tel-aviv.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/a-birthday-plaque-in-tel-aviv.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A year after the project's first Tel Aviv plaque, a second one arrived as a birthday gift Anna gave herself.</description>
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      <title>Girls Supporting Girls: The Friends Who Carry Plaques Around the World</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/girls-supporting-girls.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/girls-supporting-girls.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>5=3 has never been a solo project. Meet the friends who packed a plaque in their suitcase.</description>
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      <title>Borrowed Glue, Borrowed Sign: A Basel Story</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/borrowed-glue-borrowed-sign.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/borrowed-glue-borrowed-sign.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Arriving in Basel without a sign or glue.</description>
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      <title>Five Ways to Get Involved With 5=3</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/five-ways-to-get-involved.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/five-ways-to-get-involved.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>You don't need to travel or make anything to be part of this project.</description>
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      <title>Clay, Porcelain, Paper: The Changing Materials of 5=3</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/materials-of-5-equals-3.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/materials-of-5-equals-3.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>From a hand-cut ceramic shard to cast porcelain and street posters.</description>
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      <title>Sixteen Plaques, One Year: 2025 in Review</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/sixteen-plaques-one-year.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/sixteen-plaques-one-year.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A look back at a year of the project.</description>
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      <title>Why Pregnancy Loss Is Still Wrapped in Silence</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/why-the-silence.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/why-the-silence.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why so many people only learn how common miscarriage is after it happens to them.</description>
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      <title>What Happened When a Plaque Landed on Someone Else's Art</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-ethics-of-street-art.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-ethics-of-street-art.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A plaque in Yerevan accidentally covered another artist's mural.</description>
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      <title>Finally in London</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/finally-in-london.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/finally-in-london.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A plaque finally went up on a wall of London street art.</description>
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      <title>The Project's Furthest Stops: Havana and Rio de Janeiro</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/havana-and-rio.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/havana-and-rio.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How 5=3 plaques ended up in Rio and Havana.</description>
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      <title>What a Broken Plaque Taught Me About New Year's Eve</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-new-years-eve-taught-me.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-new-years-eve-taught-me.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A plaque cracked before New Year's Eve 2025.</description>
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      <title>A Street Poster Made Entirely of Pregnancy Tests</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/poster-made-of-pregnancy-tests.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/poster-made-of-pregnancy-tests.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>5=3's boldest material experiment yet.</description>
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      <title>Fifty Formulas: The Artwork Being Built From Your Numbers</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/fifty-formulas.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/fifty-formulas.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An open call for fifty real X = Y formulas.</description>
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      <title>Free Stickers, Real Streets: Introducing the 5=3 Sticker Pack</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-sticker-pack.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-sticker-pack.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A small printable sheet of stickers, so anyone can join in.</description>
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      <title>The Plaque Someone Else Asked For</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-plaque-someone-else-asked-for.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/the-plaque-someone-else-asked-for.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The first 5=3 plaque made to someone else's numbers.</description>
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      <title>How to Support a Friend After a Miscarriage</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/how-to-support-a-friend.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/how-to-support-a-friend.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Practical, non-clinical suggestions for what to say.</description>
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      <title>Cyprus, and the Secret Agents Who Carry a Plaque</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/cyprus-and-the-secret-agents.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/cyprus-and-the-secret-agents.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a plaque reached Cyprus without Anna ever booking a flight.</description>
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      <title>The Symphony of Stones: When a Plaque Became Land Art</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/symphony-of-stones.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/symphony-of-stones.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A circle of basalt columns near Yerevan, and a plaque that became land art.</description>
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      <title>What's Left After the Loss</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-is-left-after-the-loss.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-is-left-after-the-loss.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What a miscarriage can leave behind, psychologically and socially.</description>
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      <title>From One Plaque in Paris to More Than Twenty Cities</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/from-paris-to-twenty-cities.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/from-paris-to-twenty-cities.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a single ceramic shard grew across four continents.</description>
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      <title>One Weekend, Two Cities: Paris and Luxembourg, Again</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/paris-and-luxembourg-again.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/paris-and-luxembourg-again.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>One year after the first plaque, Paris and Luxembourg again.</description>
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      <title>1 in 4: Understanding the Real Numbers Behind Pregnancy Loss</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/one-in-four.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/one-in-four.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What the statistic actually means.</description>
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      <title>Madrid and the Shift to Porcelain</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/madrid-and-the-shift-to-porcelain.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/madrid-and-the-shift-to-porcelain.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The project's first plaque cast in porcelain.</description>
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      <title>Why Georgia: The Most Personal Plaque in the Project</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/why-georgia-matters.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/why-georgia-matters.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 2016 trip, a stopped heartbeat, and why returning to Georgia helped set something right.</description>
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      <title>Returning to Georgia, Choosing Quiet This Time</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/returning-to-georgia-choosing-quiet.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/returning-to-georgia-choosing-quiet.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A second, quieter return to Georgia — this time to Telavi.</description>
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      <title>What Is a Missed Miscarriage? A Plain-Language Explanation</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-is-a-missed-miscarriage.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-is-a-missed-miscarriage.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A clear, non-clinical explanation.</description>
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      <title>One Big Plate, Five Small Plaques: The Rehovot Story</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/rehovot-one-plate-five-plaques.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/rehovot-one-plate-five-plaques.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A large ceramic plate cracked in the kiln — and became five plaques instead.</description>
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      <title>Where 5=3 Began: The First Plaque, Left Quietly in Paris</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/where-5-equals-3-began.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/where-5-equals-3-began.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The story of the very first 5=3 plaque, May 2024.</description>
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      <title>Small Truths From the First Year</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/small-truths-from-the-first-year.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/small-truths-from-the-first-year.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Three short, plain Instagram posts from 5=3's first year.</description>
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      <title>What Does 5=3 Actually Mean? The Formula Behind the Project</title>
      <link>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-does-5-equals-3-mean.html</link>
      <guid>https://5equals3.org/blog/what-does-5-equals-3-mean.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Breaking down the equation that gives the project its name.</description>
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