“The Leaky Vessel”: On Lewis Carroll and the Perils of Being Female By Longreads Feature Rachel Vorona Cote on how the Victorian era’s restrictive prescriptions for acceptable female behavior pollute society to this day.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music By rachelvoronacote Feature Although music often involves emotional expression, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen has built a career and a persona out of big, unguarded emotions, a range that could be called “too muchness,” which is just right for some of us.
The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning By rachelvoronacote Feature Nowadays, we live online, and so we grieve here too. But there are limits to the comfort digital mourning can provide.
On Being an Ill Woman: A Reading List of Doctors’ Dismissal and Disbelief By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List Eight stories of being ill and being dismissed by the medical establishment.
