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deputy features editor @GuardianUS ; used to be @jezebel + @esquire . pitches:::: sarah.rense @guardian .co.uk
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Thrilled to join
@GuardianUS
today as deputy features editor!
Send over features pitches or just say hi—I'm always eager to work with new folks. Email is sarah.rense
@guardian
.co.uk
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It seems too cool to be real, but today is my first day editing features at
@Jezebel
! Very excited to join this team. Pitches always welcome.
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Idris Elba eats his steaks well-done.
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Gaza-based journalist
@wafa_Gaza
spoke to Palestinian women about their time in Israeli prisons. Samar gave birth while shackled. Israa badly needs medical treatment. Nisreen called it "a living hell." They feel forgotten by the world.
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Shailene Woodley was the best actor in Big Little Lies, which is really saying a lot.
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Last week the president of
@NCADV
told
@kylietcheung
, "People will see how we’re talking about Amber and think, ‘I’ll get blamed for it. I’m not going to come forward.'"
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Though "Mamma Mia!" masquerades as a preoccupation with fatherhood, the film is actually much more interested in unraveling bonds between women...
@mary__retta
for
@Jezebel
on how Mamma Mia! subtly pushes for family abolition
15 Years Ago, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Showed Us How Family Abolition Could Change Everything
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One survivor described “himpathy” as a reaction to girls failing to just be girls: “There’s this puritanical aspect of it that tells us ‘good girls forgive’—that if you are filing complaints against him, you’re not a good girl,” she told
@kylietcheung
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"Gen-Z and Millennials are, to me, where I go for my inspiration now."-
@sarahkateellis
of
@glaad
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Abortion bans are “an abuser’s dream,” and yet top anti-sexual abuse and domestic violence groups aren't outwardly outraged about the end of Roe v. Wade.
@kylietcheung
spoke to
@wagatwe
,
@alisonturkos
, and more about what that silence signals to survivors
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“I thought there was this magic in being a hot mess—like I’m f*cking Bukowski or something. I need to destroy myself in order to make good art,"
@MissMargoPrice
says about getting sober in an industry that loves its drinking songs.
From
@AudraHeinrichs
:
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It's hard to give a shit about a divorce story that isn't your own. Even if Adam Driver punches a wall. Anyway, here's mine.
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“When I talk about my abortion story, I don’t always talk about the insulin rationing aspect of it.”
@zoehaswitt
spoke to diabetics across the country about the prospect of high-risk, highly expensive forced births in post-Roe America for
@Jezebel
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“I’m sure there still are some that are like, ‘Women shouldn’t be here,’ but that’s not the society I want to live in,"
@HaedenWright
told
@GrimKim
.
600 days into a grueling coal miners' strike, these women are ready to get arrested
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“Ohioans are rugged. We are determined,"
@ninaturner
told
@AudraHeinrichs
in Cleveland last weekend, where her progressive grassroots campaign—cameo by
@marwilliamson
!—is up against a moneyed, moderate incumbent. Ohio politics...they're ugly rn
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Today, after tons of hard work, editors, writers, researchers, designers, vid and photo producers, and many more are making our voices heard with
@HearstUnion
. I'm so proud to be a part of it, and I believe it's so important for the future of Hearst (and media!).
#HearstUnion
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"Somebody Somewhere" is such an incredible show, and within it is a quietly radical character who shows that rural America itself is not something to overcome—it’s home.
from
@AChemeche
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Abortion advocates are increasingly concerned that the Satanic Temple's reproductive rights campaign is, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, an ineffective stunt that puts pregnant people in legal jeopardy.
@sueonthetown
reports for
@Jezebel
:
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I’m new to
@jezebel
and new to
@gmgunion
…how cool to meet some of my colleagues for the first time ever on the picket line striking for a fair contract (NOW thx)
#gmgstrike
+
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A lot of people worked really damn hard to make this happen, and I’m honored to be a part of it—and a part of what comes next for
@HearstUnion
. 3 to 1!! 74% yes votes!! That’s one hell of a margin!!
WE DID IT!!! The National Labor Relations Board just finished counting our votes, and we voted overwhelmingly to unionize, by a margin of 3-1.
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With the Roe v. Wade situation looking extremely dire,
@kylietcheung
reports on what advocates on the ground in red states actually need from us—and what kind of misguided support makes them feel "disposable."
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#breaking2
from
@Nike
and
@NatGeo
redefines what we consider "impossible" for the human body. Absolutely recommend.
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an undisputed TV classic, but it’s also a time capsule of white nerd angst, writes
@gabriellebruney
. She talked to
@evanrosskatz
about his new reported Buffy book, which is both a love letter to and a reckoning with the show
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“If you can control your food, you can control your destiny," says
@Chef_Sean
of
@the_sioux_chef
just before his fully decolonized restaurant Owamni opens in Minneapolis
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This list from
@esquire
could've easily been 1,000 restaurants, or 100,000 restaurants, that we love. Help through
@InitiativeLee
,
@WCKitchen
,
@RWCFUSA
, and more where you can
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"There is something within so many of us that prefers the fuck up, which makes a sobriety tale a hard one to crack."
@mariasherm
on how recent pop culture—like "Single Drunk Female," Cara Delevingne and alcoholism memoirs—is taking aim at addiction.
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fuck tom brady.
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Cannabis, for all its promise in America, has never been the cause of more inequality. I talked to
@damianmarley
,
@EricRachmany
, and
@stevedeangelo
about what celebs, businessmen, you, and me can do about it (cc:
@lastprisonerprj
)
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Cannot stress enough how dumb it is to praise Melania and Ivanka's "feminine power."
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Who's the better NBA fan, the guy whining about James Harden or the woman writing a multi-chapter fanfic about the Sixers accidentally time-traveling back to the year 1776?
@kylietcheung
on the earnest, sometimes-smutty, vast world of NBA fanfic:
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Ballet is too brutal to keep doing if you don't love it. Now dancers—like
@by_emilyleibert
, who wrote this beautiful feature—want ballet to love them back.
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Remember that time Prince showed up on the Today Show to surprise the anchors?
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"I never needed Barbie to be a feminist role model.... I needed Barbie to help me experiment with different modes of femininity, until I ultimately embraced queer androgyny as my preferred aesthetic."
@AxliWrites
on the Barbie-shaped hole in her life:
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Love to be informed
When workers want to unionize, senior management will routinely deploy anti-union tactics in an attempt to dissuade employees from supporting the union. We hoped we wouldn’t have to play anti-union bingo, but here we are. How many of these claims have you heard this week?
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Covid ratcheted up white anxiety, and Great Replacement conspiracy theorists swooped in. This poses a deep (read: terrifying) threat to abortion rights.
@gwensnyderPHL
deftly tied it all together for Jez
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"It's unclear what there is to be learned from Depp v. Heard. That the internet can be vicious, sexist, and terribly stupid because people can be vicious, sexist, and terribly stupid? No shit."
review by
@AudraHeinrichs
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You absolutely love to see it
Oh BTW-- GMG Union's strike authorization vote ended with 100% in favor, at 93% turnout.
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Can't stress enough how well Sexual Assault Awareness Month is going.
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This is intense and emotional and damn this shit is cool
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Need to rot your brain cells in under 10 minutes? Try this!
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Check out this asshole, whose existence I was forced to consider today.
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Scarlett Johansson was the top grossing actor of 2016, and she doesn't even have her own Avengers movie (yet):
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The immensely talented writers at Jezebel deserve so much better than this cruelty...
@l_tousignant
@kady_ruth
@RichJuz
@SusanRinkunas
@AudraHeinrichs
@kylietcheung
@caitlinrcruz
love you guys, and love this blog
Media news: G/O Media is shutting down Jezebel after failing to find a buyer. Memo just went out from Jim Spanfeller:
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I would listen to Helen fucking Mirren on anything, but *especially* on feminism and sexiness.
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Today is a good day for drinking.
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“I want to be skinny so I can feel like an ethereal angel. It’s almost like my own religion.”
@emmamaddenUK
reports on centuries of spiritual devotion to eating disorders—from Eve's apple to the Thin Commandments and WitchTok mysticism
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.
@caitlinrcruz
wrote a completely engrossing feature about the universe of fan theories that is Gaylor—the true-crime element of following Taylor Swift's clues, the fallout of Bettygate, the camaraderie amongst queer fans, and beyond
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Shaheen called her mom from school this week, tears in her voice because she thought her mom would be prosecuted under Greg Abbott's cruel anti-trans directive in TX. They'd already been through so much together.
They shared their story with
@Jezebel
:
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“When someone tries to tell me I cannot do something as a business owner, as a Black woman, as a person living with disabilities—especially as a person living with disabilities—I say, ‘Watch me.’” — via
@IAmAudarshia
for
@esquire
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There are many reasons to consider PrEP for HIV prevention a "failure in the grand scheme of things," as
@kenyonfarrow
called it—one of which is that women don't think PrEP is for them.
@RichJuz
dove in on its 10th anniversary.
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"Halloween vigilance presents the illusion of control, even though it makes no sense at all."
@sueonthetown
on the perfectly timed rainbow fentanyl candy panic and how it targets parents (and voters)
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Someone finally (kind of sort of) called Ivanka on her shit.
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Kimberly was secretly tracked by an AirTag. The police told her it wasn't a crime. Now she carries up to six weapons, including knives and pepper spray, at all times.
@AudraHeinrichs
reports on how cops and Big Tech leave stalking victims vulnerable
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"For all the jokes and drunken hot dogs and silliness, there was a real seriousness of intent behind what he did." —
@LaurieWoolever
on the best tourist of them all
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Can't wait to hear how much Ivanka "disagrees" with this one.
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This is one hell of a knife—handcrafted from meteorite, inspired by Samurai sword-making.
@ericripert
,
@chefjoseandres
, and
@kramerknives
told me why Anthony Bourdain was passionate about it.
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“I get how well-meaning people are desperate to protect access, but we’re failing to acknowledge whether or not tribes have the power and resources to be sued," Rachael Lorenzo of
@IWRising
told
@kylietcheung
Tribal Land Is Suddenly at the Center of the Fight for Abortion Access
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I am
#thankfulforhearstunion
because organizing alongside my very cool and talented colleagues is in fact the best cure for media burnout
#hearstunion
@HearstUnion
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Sam Bee checked in on Jon Stewart last night. He was only a little insane.
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"The safety of the unaccent makes me feel like a fraud, someone who bends to accommodate the power structures she’s supposed to be challenging."
@kbeccaandrews
searches for her past self in this beautifully honest essay for
@Jezebel
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Al Franken and Samantha Bee at their most wicked.
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Comedians are desperately in need of and uniquely resistant to psychotherapy, writes
@mcdermott
. But one man has broken through: Alan Lefkowitz, therapist to seemingly every stand-up in New York. They really love this guy.
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Pink brides, pink parasites, pink polyamory, pink-tinged grief... There are a ton of reasons why people needed pink in their lives long before the Barbie movie.
@by_emilyleibert
talked to folks about what they get out of this polarizing color:
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Friends with your ex? You might be a psychopath. Or they might be a psychopath.
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Modern-minded brides are experiencing “bridal trauma,” or severe anxieties that force them to confront who they really are—and who the hell they’re even planning their wedding for.
@by_emilyleibert
spoke to some of them:
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It's the one year anniversary of Hurricane Maria destroying Puerto Rico, and the island is still waiting for first world treatment.
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This is pretty damn inspirational: "Cancer made me understand more deeply, appreciate more quickly, cry more easily, hope more desperately, love more openly, and live more passionately."
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Celebrity book clubs are girls clubs. Is it because celeb men are too cool to grovel at the emotional undoings of fictional characters? Because they don't face pressure to communicate their morals in the same way celeb women do? Is it because they...can't read?
@kady_ruth
digs in
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The ACLU received 6x as many online donations this weekend than all of last year.
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"Leaving Prima Facie, I realized that Jodie Comer’s Ensler faces not just one jury, but two: the audience. The latter can be just as cruel."
@AudraHeinrichs
on the unrelenting play that's up for 4 Tony Awards this weekend:
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"I’m trying to stay as unbiased here as possible, but I can’t lie: Mastodon gives me a giant anarchist nerd boner."
many thanks to
@gwensnyderPHL
for helping us pick our poison:
My latest for
@Jezebel
: bird site is spiraling the drain.
So, I checked out the vibes over on Post and Mastodon.
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From
@scoutstout
, to all the women who've been called bitches, or as good as, in the workplace
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Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, and others are stunning in the 2017 Pirelli Calendar:
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#HearstUndivided
through it all (shy of a cliff) until we achieve transparency, compensation, diversity initiatives, the works
@HearstUnion
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Time for 73-year-old Newt Gingrich, 3-time husband and 2-time cheater, to learn about sex:
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Cool, a mirror that tell you exactly how fat you are. That seems healthy:
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The best bartender in the world is a woman (again). She named one of her winning cocktails The Matriarch. 💪💪
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"If you think the
#MeToo
reckoning is over because the Weinsteins of the world have been toppled, you’ve missed the point..." 21 essays on where we go from here, from
@esquire
+
@marieclaire
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"My body became another thing to be ashamed of. I blamed it for taking up too much space and attracting the ravenous stares of strange men."
One of many lines from this beautiful piece by
@FrancesNguyen
about learning to feel safe in her own skin:
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The Bush twins tell Sasha and Malia to "enjoy college" and "make mistakes" before they get to changing the world:
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There is so much good stuff in
@KateLStorey
's entirely engrossing
@esquire
profile of John David Washington—about family legacy, choosing acting, and most importantly, his love for Charlotte from SATC
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Lifestyles of the rich and stupid.
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21 bad photo attempts and 1 costume change later, we remain
#hearstundivided
, for
@esquire
and the
@HearstUnion
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The real question being if Trump actually *can* read the traditional storybook to the kids or not.
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.
@thekellymaclean
writes about the good, the bad, and the awkward about breastfeeding her 3-year-old son through covid—AKA being "mounted by a sizable boob vampire"
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