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We All Die In the End, But Our Skin Looks Great: A Reading List

by Sara Benincasa October 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Are you happy and well-rested, or did you just find a great new snail collagen sheet mask?

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List, Unapologetic Women

Sex Work and Workers: A Reading List to Get You Beyond Law & Order SVU and Pretty Woman

by Sara Benincasa June 17, 2019October 19, 2022

The best way to learn what being a sex worker is like is to listen to sex workers.

Posted inReading List, Technology

Twitter Won’t Miss You: A Digital Detox Reading List (and Roadmap)

by Sara Benincasa March 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Maybe it’s time for an internet break… after you read this.

Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women

Labor Pains: A Reading List

by Sara Benincasa January 28, 2019October 19, 2022

No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.

Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: A Reading List About Witches

by Sara Benincasa November 27, 2018October 19, 2022

Witchcraft: it’s spirituality, it’s a philosophy, it’s a lot more than flowy black dresses and cursing your exes.

red, green, blue, and orange pac-man ghosts painted on a gray wall, with bright green grass on the ground
Posted inReading List

Boo: A Reading List About Ghosts

by Sara Benincasa August 28, 2018October 19, 2022

Ghost stories point to a reality beyond our own — or, at the very least, to an expanded understanding of what this plane of existence encompasses. (And they’re fun.)

In a movie theater, rows of red velvet chairs sitting empty in front of a blank screen.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Great Reviews Of Movies I Have Never Seen: A Reading List

by Sara Benincasa July 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Sometimes, the review is better than the film it reviews.

Posted inReading List

Remembrance of Folks Past: A Reading List of the Stories We Tell

by Sara Benincasa June 21, 2018October 19, 2022

“Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?”

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