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Category Archives: “women”
there was that one time
***Update 6/21: THIS IS A POST ABOUT THE BIOGRAPHER CHARLES J. SHIELDS***
on the occasion of my 33rd birthday, an older man i considered a professional mentor sent me a facebook message asking if i wanted children and whether i might help him continue his line.
and lo! the daily mail has discovered gaslighting
jackie, janet and lee: “women who existed only to captivate the world’s richest and most powerful men” (emotions via britney)
today, class, a close reading of the DM’s article of 16 february 2018, entitled: “Sisters who competed to snare the world’s richest men: Schooled by their mother to seek out power, a new book reveals the jealousy between Jackie O and sister Lee and how they both bedded JFK.”
i mean, just right there, yeah?
biography has sex problems: edward klein and the c. david heymann dilemma
if we’re having a reckoning, hey, let’s look at biography.
this is edward klein:

(via twitter)
we need to talk about him. Continue reading
harry will marry: stray thoughts
and LO! when you say for years and years that someone HAS TO MARRY, eventually they will and you will be right.

(via @KensingtonRoyal)
so harry will marry. as was probably likely all along as royals usually eventually do. Continue reading
and the part of jacqueline kennedy onassis will be played by kim kardashian or taylor swift
well, well. so it’s one of those mornings where i went to bed thinking i’d write about one thing and woke up to discover i needed to write about something else.

(via @kimkardashian)
because last night this struck me as nothing, beyond its imminent usefulness to me.
#bookshopsexism
i work in a bookshop.
in many ways, it is deeply lovely. but the level of sexism one encounters working in a bookshop is STAGGERING, fyi.
“EXCLUSIVE”! “Serial cheater”! sex in the home gym! (emotions via kris jenner)
yaaaaaaaaa’ll, remember the sex lives of dead people: jfk edition (emotions via britney)?
remember jerry oppenheimer?
let’s refresh. Continue reading
oh hello
The Way Up! ’tis here.
the totally (well… ish) amateur podcast you didn’t know you needed and hopefully very soon will not be able to live without. wherein the uh-mazing sarah hosein and i talk about life and death and culture and stories and feminism with assorted amazing people. Continue reading
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