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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…