Reminded of the guy who emailed my boss after we broke up… same vibes

My takeaway from the Chomsky email (and something I learned quickly during my years at Jezebel) is that an accusation of hysteria is still perceived as rational and powerful

Only a matter of time before the NYT seriously publishes the old Onion article, “Women: Why Are They So Fat?”

Holy cow! For National Geographic, I went to see the Grand Ole Opry for its 100th anniversary and wrote 4000 words about the longest-running radio show in the world. Featuring new interviews with Vince Gill, Steve Earle, and Pam Tillis.

Being subjected to Hulk Hogan and Lena Dunham discourse again and the blogs are dead

This is so smart www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Paywalled (alas), but if you'd like to learn about the secret Nazi weather stations of Svalbard during WWII and the strange battles that were fought several hundred miles north of Europe, I got you covered over at National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Seeing a lot of posts about the aesthetics of resistance that can’t quite acknowledge that “cringe” is almost always synonymous with “middle age women”

I wrote this four years ago, and since then the archive of Trump’s fascist aesthetic has become more expansive, but its purpose remains effective static www.jezebel.com/the-triumph-...

Just learned that I was a gender studies major at an Ivy

I had the pleasure of writing a bit about the history behind the “faerie smut” publishing phenomenon! www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

“Imaginary power is a dreadful thing to lose. Their aggrievedness – my aggrievedness – at having had it taken away is endless: it’s MAGA’s reason for being” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

fucked around and made a new (independent/worker-owned) music and culture website w/my friends :') www.hearingthings.co

I wrote about Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden and narratives of reproduction, both physical and photographic publicdomainreview.org/essay/throug...

There are too many Substacks. Can everyone just write for The Awl again?

Spent some time looking at the French porcelains at the Met and ended up here