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Stassa Edwards
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Features editor. Writing at the intersection of women's health, politics, and history. Work at Lapham's Quarterly, Aeon, The Awl, Self, and Cabinet. Writing a book about hysteria.

Yes!! I had my first baby on Tuesday, and not being pregnant anymore after a tough pregnancy is freaking amazing. I had a c-section 4 days ago and can move better and with less pain now than I could in the weeks leading up to birth. My baby is also awesome, so between the joy of baby and the joy of non-pregnancy, I'm Read more

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I’m still hanging in until this Key and Peele song supplants the original:

If you haven’t seen Ex-Machina you should. Even if you don’t like sci-fi he’s amazing in it.

I have it bad for Oscar Isaac, but now I think I ship Daisy and Oscar. Dumb song but charisma can make up for a lot.
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The best part about giving birth is that you’re no longer pregnant afterwards. And the baby, of course, but in the first few post-partum days, I was so shell-shocked the fact that there was a baby and that he was mine felt very abstract. Not being pregnant, however, felt very real and very amazing. A friend visited me Read more

Congrats to her! She sounds like someone who really hates pregnancy so I’m happy for her that it’s over! Read more

I don’t know. I think about it a lot. The cops don’t do a great job, universities have, in many cases, essentially gamed the system to make sure they don’t add to their crime reporting stats, and we don’t have a lot of alternative models. Read more

With a dash of Tim Conway.

Also Carol Burnett and Charo.

Cheers, Stassa. This is just the antidote to the Gawker article on the awful Reaganites back then. Everyone who loved us while we were dying and half the country was laughing about it is an angel.
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I know we are all probably still traumatized by the Lindsey Lohan biopic, but I would watch the ever-loving hell out of Dallas Buyers Club 2: White Diamonds. Read more

To be fair, he did try to give her the D, it just got intercepted and taken back for 6. Read more

Nobody’s looking for saviors here, Granddad. By the way, why not eat something? Read more

If this guy is a protestor, Carly Fiorina is a presidential candidate. Read more

Jesus, Carly. What are you willing to say? What are you willing to espouse? Do you have any soul left at all? Read more

To my knowledge BLM has never shot up anywhere or killed anyone. When I was interviewing for a job for an organization that works with abortion we had to meet at an undisclosed location for safety reasons. I had to sign that I wouldn’t tell anyone where we met. Anti-choice fuck nuts have killed and bombed us. They Read more