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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Aly Raisman, Joseph Williams, Jenna Wortham, Mayukh Sen, and Sirin Kale.
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How the ‘Spice World’ Movie Became a Deranged, Postmodern Masterpiece
What happened when the Spice Girls decided to make Spice World, their first feature film, twenty years ago? It’s a zany tale involving “Cool Britannia,” one of the highest selling female pop groups of all time, paparazzi, and Meat Loaf as a bus driver who defuses a bomb.
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Stand Up For Transgender Equality: A Reading List
I was in the lobby of a theater in Washington, D.C. when I saw the first of the tweets about the Trump administration’s decision to stymie protections for transgender students on the federal level. It wasn’t until the play ended and I was on the Metro home that I had cell service; I began to piece together […]
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The Humanizing Properties of Depression: Daphne Merkin Talks to Gabby Bess
At Broadly, Gabby Bess — a writer who has depression — interviews life-long sufferer Daphne Merkin, and reviews Merkin’s new memoir, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression.
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Spending Your Entire Life Wanting to Die
A profile of author Daphne Merkin, whose new memoir, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression, chronicles her six decades living with deep depression and suicidal thoughts.
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The High Price of Breaking Ground
McMahon hired her in 1997, and Chyna became the first woman to battle male wrestlers in the WWF ring, much to the chagrin of many fans, who protested Chyna’s presence by throwing batteries at her and spreading nasty rumors. (One was that she had the world’s largest clit; another, that she had a penis.) But […]
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Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches
Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches
Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
On Beauty: A Reading List About Makeup
Beauty criticism analyzes the ways we can subvert a society that would have us subsumed by self-loathing. We use the tools we’ve been given. Makeup, then, can be a weapon. And it can be damn fun.