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Category Archives: writing women’s lives
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
the pathos of jackie kennedy dolls on etsy, 2.0
i’ve written about this before. AT LENGTH. so i’mma keep it short here. try to anyway.
but i was doing my annual pre-birthday perusal of kennedy things on etsy…
nothing new to see, ya’ll. the gang’s all here.
FACT TIME WITH OLINE: the daily mail on jacqueline kennedy’s suicidal thoughts
in the first of what may or may not become a recurring series…
FACT TIME WITH OLINE!!!
oh hey, ya’ll. i’m a legit doctor now so please note the new, highly over-educated gravitas of my lit crit here.
good timing too because with the release of jackie, lo! a kennedy season is upon us.
translation: prepare yoself for some really ridiculously counter-factual daily mail reports.
et voilá!
mariah and “the fans” plus women and work
either my love of mariah has suddenly re-bloomed full-flower and i am aware of her in a way i not been in recent years, or the daily mail has taken a new-found interest in her, OR a bit of both.
we need to talk about tonya harding
a deep reading of the promotional photo from JACKIE, a film which has not yet been made and which i have, therefore, not seen but about which i will now make some conclusions based on fashions

© Copyright CBS Broadcasting Inc.; Credit: CBS Photo Archive
so there’s been a natalie portman jackie movie in the works for awhile, scheduled for release in 2017, and they’ve doled out a promo image to excite us all and prove they’re in production.
why jackie?: an autoethnographic exploration
so much of life, or our experience of the world around us, is what i’mma call THINGS IN THE AIR.
(feel free to credit me with that incredibly precise phraseology when discussing this later with all yo friends.)

the sex lives of dead people: elizabeth taylor + everyone edition
come, let us look at this closely.
and let us begin by noting that, thanks to the oddities of the daily mail‘s online layout, no, this is not liz taylor at 16. it is a marks & spencer’s conspiracy to get us to buy cashmere. Continue reading
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