The Alienist is the latest addition to a growing subgenre of period television—an unromantic look at the past that’s…
Stassa Edwards
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Features editor. Writing at the intersection of women's health, politics, and history. Work at Lapham's Quarterly, Aeon, The Awl, Self, and Cabinet. Writing a book about hysteria.
“It took a really long time for me to validate this as sexual assault,” an anonymous 23-year-old woman going by the…
PBS announced on Tuesday that it will air a five-part series about the #MeToo moment. The series, #MeToo, Now What?,…
In a series of frank and straightforward portraits, ordinary women meet the gaze of photographer Eliza Hatch’s…
News that a legacy magazine was preparing to publish the name of the woman who originated the Shitty Media Men List…
A handful of Democratic House members have invited sexual assault survivors as their guests to the State of the…
“Representative Shooter repeatedly referred to his male genitalia as a ‘gun,’” Arizona Representative Wenona Benally…
“For many weeks now, the conversation that has been going on in private about this reckoning is radically different…
Leigh Corfman, the woman who accused failed Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her in 1979 when she…
In an unplanned interview at his Palm Beach golf club, characterized by Donald Trump’s standard bluster and…
Only a few more days until the Rapture!
Yet another profile of what is generally described as “Trump Country” arrived this week. In this iteration, the Assoc…
“A walking billboard for her brand” is how the Wall Street Journal describes Ivanka Trump. According to a new report…
History has nearly forgotten Lucy Parsons (c. 1853-1942), the radical anarchist and orator who enthused…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
New information from the Office of Compliance (OOC) shows that taxpayers have paid $199,000 to settle sexual…