Recent Articles
My latest column (& a reading list on diet culture)
My latest column is now live. It’s about my relationship with my body, disordered eating, fat phobia and trying to rid my life of toxic messaging around diet, weight, health and fitness.
“He took her life, stole her future”
I’m not sure what more there is to say about Sarah Everard’s murder. I’m hesitant to say anything besides offering condolences to the people that loved her, that continue to love her. I can only imagine what it must be like to see the face of a person you love in the paper under a headline with the words ‘rape’ and ‘murder’ in it.
Should I shave my head?
(coz I kinda already did)
Revisiting the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
There have been a bunch of projects reexamining Bill Clinton’s affair with a White House intern in the late 1990s.
What the 2016 election taught us about women, power and “authenticity”
One of the most frequent criticisms of Hillary Rodham Clinton is the suggestion that she's inauthentic. Questions about “authenticity” have dogged her thirty years in public life, from First Lady and Senator to Secretary of State and presidential candidate. But, HRC has been “authentic” all along. We just weren’t listening.
On ‘The Rules Do Not Apply” and privilege
There’s something about the internet’s quickness to reach for the ‘check your privilege’ card that makes me very uncomfortable.
Enormous eye
In August 2015, eager to shake myself out of a writing slump, I wrote a diary of a random Saturday inspired by the Enormous Eye series
