Toronto, Ontario, Canada It does no good to write autobiographical fiction cause the minute the book hits the stand here comes your mama screamin how could you and sighin death…
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Contemporaries Essays
Intergenerational Feminist: A Conversation with Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson began her career as a nonprofit leader by doing campus outreach and action-fund coordination for Planned Parenthood. She has since served as Vice President of Programs at the…

Contemporaries Essays
Itinerant Feminist: A Conversation with Jennifer Baumgardner
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…

Contemporaries Essays
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…

Contemporaries Essays
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…

Contemporaries Essays
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…

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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…