Starting as an intern at Ms. magazine in 1993, Jennifer Baumgardner became the youngest editor in the magazine’s history in 1997. She left in 1998, working since as a prolific activist, filmmaker, public…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Marit MacArthur, December 6
Davis, California Dear interlocutors, Fecal transplants are the future. I appreciated the figurative spirit of Jacob’s riff on Knausgaard’s shit, if not the substance. But yeah, I would argue that…
My Struggle, vol. 6: Cecily, December 4
Princeton, New Jersey Dear friends, Two disclaimers: I gave birth to my second child one month ago and I have not yet read the Hitler section of Book 6. Note…
My Struggle, vol. 6: Jacob Brogan, November 29
Washington, DC Dear friends, Near the end of the very dull book that we have all been discussing together there is a scene in which Karl Ove Knausgaard spends several…
Sex and the City: Lauren Jackson, November 28 (Guest Post)
Chicago, Illinois HEY LADIES!! I watched Sex and the City in the summer weeks between college and grad school, holed up in a tiny, campus-adjacent apartment surrounded by hundreds of…
Sex and the City: Ned, November 21
Bed-Stuy, New York Dear Girls, I can’t believe we’ve reached the end. In lieu of collecting my thoughts and actually writing something about Sex and the City, I’ve decided to embrace…
My Struggle, vol. 6: Dan, November 20
Somewhere over the Atlantic Dear friends, It was anxiety. Now, despair. “My basic feeling is that of the world disappearing, that our lives are being filled with images of the…
Being a Woman in Public
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My Struggle, vol. 6: Marit MacArthur, November 13
Sacramento, California, indoors, hiding from hellish air quality due to the Camp Fire, dealing with my children’s first case of head lice “Most reckless things are beautiful in some way,…
My Struggle, vol. 6: Joshua Keating, November 12
Washington, D.C. Dear fellow strugglers, A wave of nostalgia hit me as I finished Book Six of My Struggle after midnight on a sweltering August night. While I had inhaled…