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Is Taylor Swift a poet?
On sad girlies, Sylvia Plath, madness, and the body on pop
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Why the Golden Divorce makes everyone so mad
Plus essays on aging, a show about girls and violence, and a book with a butt
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Read me at The New York Times Magazine
I spent five months talking to married people about *intimacy*
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"Too many of us feel an intense shame about our desires"
Jo Piazza on women, wanting, and her new novel, The Sicilian Inheritance
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“What will your kids think?”
Writing about your children is not ‘sharenting’
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From Bad Girl to Bad Mother
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The Golden Bachelor Changes Nothing
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The banality of white male rage
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The Way We Talk About Domestic Inequality is Broken
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Spring & Summer Classes, Seminars + Work 1-1 with Me
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The banality of white male rage
Travis Kelce's little blowup, and now this
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Marrying Peter Pan
Reality dating shows highlight the absurd risk of marriage, especially for women
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"As soon as the baby arrives all of her choices disappear"
A conversation about plot, postpartum fiction, and writing leaky tits with Szilvia Molnar, author of the novel The Nursery
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Amanda Montei
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Girl pop, resentment, complaint, rivalry & the paradox of feminism
Olivia Rodrigo is out for blood & Taylor has entered her tortured poet era
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Women Reclaiming Themselves from the Culture
Archiving and undefining sex, the harassment of public intellectuals who are women, lost feminist knowledge, and books about madwomen
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"I didn’t see that my body was the thread connecting what I was doing sexually, what I was doing with how I fed myself, what I was doing at…
Talking about labor, bodies, consent, motherhood, and writing with Margo Steines, author of Brutalities: A Love Story
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Women Are Always Blamed for Maternal Dread
But there's another term for thinking carefully about becoming parents: consent
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Quitting the Adjunct Hustle
This is one of those leaving the academy essays— sort of
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