I’ve spent a lot of time in recent weeks going berserk raging marveling at how our first-world public health accomplishments could spiral so horribly out of control with recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, dangerous diseases that were nearly eradicated for at least a generation due to high vaccination rates and the ensuing herd immunity. Even a couple of my coolest, smartest …
A Manifesto on Egg Freezing and Work-Life Balance
It’s hard to be mad at a benefit that promotes a reproductive choice for women, but the context is infuriating. Here’s my Jezebel manifesto, of sorts, of why it’s just not enough.
Lindy West Brings Light to the Darkness of Sexual Abuse
Nearly everyone has stories of abuse that transcend a horrific spectrum, men and women, adults and children. Playground teasing that escalates into groping and coercion. Repeated clandestine rape by a family member or “friend.” Jokes and remarks with a subcurrent meant to sexually humiliate someone in the moment, but stay with them forever. It took the ragevision of one woman, Lindy …
The Cleansing Diary: Kidney Punches, Hallucinations and Monkeybuckets
Since college, my friend Linda has always been a sort of personal tastemaker for me. If she swipes on a lip gloss, I am certain mine is the wrong one. I love her books, her shoes, her clothes, her apartment, her art projects. So when she invited me to do something she swears by called the “Stiggly Cleanse” run by …
Money: How to Score a Discount at the Spa
Today’s post comes from discount diva Andrea Woroch, who gives us the lowdown on how to save at the spa. 1. Wellness WeekToday kicks off SpaFinder’s Wellness Week. From now through Sunday you can indulge in your favorite treatment for just $50, or at savings up to 50-percent off, along with various free events. Find out which spas and salons …
Health: Why Our Eyes Change in Our 40s
My grandmother’s original Bakelite frames. She had it going on! I distinctly remember the first time I could see clearly. I was 10, and I stepped outside the optometrist’s office on Lexington Avenue and saw that buildings had edges. They no longer blurred into the sky like a smudged painting. The city looked like pictures in books, and on postcards! …
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Relationships: Lucy the Dog Part IRelationships: Lucy the Dog Part I
The first time I saw Lucy was in the spring of 1998. She was on a sliver of shoulder on a twisty road. One wrong step would have sent her down a sheer cliff to the frigid waters of Discovery Bay on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. I slowed down to get a better look at this sleek, quick mutt, a cross …