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Friday, August 03, 2018

'Better not risk it'

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Sorry, dear reader(s), but I remain fixated on the bonkers Twitter response to the news story of the pregnant woman who got served cleaning...
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Thursday, August 02, 2018

Women: never the right age, and always shopping all wrong

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-When I see Catherine Nichols has a new piece out, I always click, but I especially recommend her latest for Jezebel , about "dead girl...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

On "Nanette" ambivalence

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Everyone seemed to really love "Nanette." By "everyone" at this stage (there will be other stages), I mostly mean people...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Woman Over 35

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There are certain birthdays that matter. The last of these for me was 27 , aka the age I became a  madame , in a couple (but not all) senses...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Maternity garb, Part II: realities

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To discuss maternity clothes is to discuss bodies. There's no one situation of The Pregnant Lady (or to expand further, and open up anot...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Maternity garb, Part I: fantasies

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Before the day came when I, personally, required special clothing to accommodate an ever-expanding midsection, I had only the vaguest i...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Toronto is better. Except for the thing with the cars.

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Whenever I'm in both my hometown of New York City and my current home of Toronto in a short span of time, I can't help but compare. ...
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Saturday, June 02, 2018

The Incel Question

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When it arrived in the last few news cycles, the incel phenomenon was not entirely new to me. I was in Santa Barbara not long after the most...
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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Toronto's best inconvenient eats

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Among the many reasons I could not be a food critic: how much I like a meal is almost entirely dependent on how hungry I am at the time, and...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

A year later

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March 14. That felt familiar, but why? Pi day? But familiar beyond this. (I'm reasonably pi-day-indifferent.) And then it hit me: My bo...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Anatomy of a troll: why the yoga pants story is a Work of Art

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Some texts demand close readings, and none more so than today's NYT op-ed by Honor Jones, "Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women."...
Sunday, February 04, 2018

The Good, the Bad, and the rest

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It's becoming something of a truism, even among those who support it, that #MeToo needs to make room for nuance. Once the question moved...
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