Those in my life can attest to the frequent incredulousness with which I move through the world. Generally I do know why things are the way they are, but it rarely tempers my awe that the things that happen, actually happen. The details of this world still find a way to flatten me. There are women who run around…
After watching the entirety of Girls (twice), and considering it these past few weeks in particular as I’ve kept apace with the final season, I find I have twenty minutes to write about it here and don’t quite have the words to express what it meant to me—the joy, the uncontrollable laughter, the recognition, and deep…
I moved to New York two days before starting work at Gawker in the fall of 2014. When I walked up the stairs to the office in Soho I was acutely unsure of how to hold my body so I wouldn’t seem terrified: the only person I knew in the building was Emma, who had taken me to Jezebel from the Hairpin, where it had just…
It was at my six-weeks-postpartum appointment that someone in the birth world finally admitted what we all fear to be true: vaginal birth can ruin your vagina, even might ruin it—and, in my case, did. The doc inserted the type of speculum she’d always used on me in the past, then took it back out, turned to the nurse,…
This is gonna be short because I like my goodbyes like my birth control: nonexistent and followed by a prayer.
I really don't have much more to say than this. Thank you so much for everything.
Filmed on Thursday, The View aired their final, final, final goodbye to Barbara Walters Friday morning. The episode included appearances by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Douglas and Oprah Winfrey, as well as practically every single female television host from the last two decades, all of whom came to pay their…
Do you miss Bunheads? You do! Here's a goodbye video of the cast performing Elton John’s “Blues for Baby and Me" that can act as a balm during your extended mourning period.
Dear Cory McGruder,
When I started writing for Jezebel today, it was a site full of promise. OK, maybe not full of promise, but I had some expectations. I expected that this feminist site and I would have some laughs and some learning and that everyone would agree that what I say is correct and that different opinions are wrong. I just…
This weekend we rolled our eyes at a Swiss anti-feminism meeting; we spent an afternoon in quiet, solemn reflection on the shaving of Russia's legs and, by extension, our own body hair removal habits.
So, Anna returns to triumphantly retake the Jezebel helm on Monday, which makes it time for me to say a fond farewell to you guys here on Jezebel and to slink on back to Wonkette. I have to say that this has been a really strange and interesting couple of weeks for me as it was hard to walk that line between revealing …
