May 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
2 posts
Mandy Patinkin Could Not Be Happier About Someone... →
I really wish Mandy Patinkin was this excited about my baby.
November 2012
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September 2012
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"There is a new dominatrix in town. And her name... →
Everything about Ariel Levy’s subtle takedown of Naomi Wolf is the best. Especially the part where she gets the phrase “rat pussy” into the New Yorker.
August 2012
3 posts
Perhaps This SHOULD Be The Stuff of Feminist...
Reading a New York Times campaign blog about feminism and the current election, I stumbled over this passage:
The issue of how to find a “work-family balance” for working women continues to gain mainstream political traction, but that’s hardly the stuff of feminist manifestos.
Calling it “work-family balance” makes it sound all cutesy and like it’s just some frivolous...
Prenatal Depression + Responding to Trolls
I wrote this series on prenatal depression for Slate. Here are parts 1 and 2. This was in many ways the most difficult project I’ve ever worked on. Not because the actual writing was hard. But because it was such a painful and personal period, and I worried about perpetuating stereotypes that pregnant women are crazy or incompetent. I also worried about prejudice I would potentially face...
July 2012
2 posts
What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having... →
In an effort to make this tumblr less exclusively panda-related I am linking to this lovely essay by Marie Myung-Ok Lee about what her son’s profound disability has taught her about accepting and enjoying life as it is. This line, about the omnipresent Anne-Marie Slaughter having it all piece, made me laugh: “But the hidden heart of the article, I believe, is its hinting at that...
The Girls from Girls, Glamour (PDF) →
An essay I wrote including interviews with Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, and Zosia Mamet from Glamour’s May, 2012 issue.
December 2010
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June 2010
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