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Stassa Edwards
sbedwards
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.

So you’re saying she’s available?
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Dammit, I came here hoping for a Mariah Carey-esque tour rider. Bernie doesn’t like busy patterns. He also wants 20 white kittens and 100 white doves to be released when he goes on stage for the debate. Read more

So, basically, it’s like everytime you try to have a faculty meeting. Everyone is never free on the same night.
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“I sure hope — we’re in Bernie Sanders’ backyard here in New Hampshire — I sure hope he intends to show up in his neighboring state”...“There is nothing worse than a debate about debates.”

ESPN is still doubling-down on this shit? Wasn’t it enough that they repeatedly, falsely, stated on air that she didn’t come forward with her accusations until he was in the running for the Heisman? Read more

I don’t know what the hell we’re going to do. What I was building cratered with Lucent and the broader tech sector, then again in 2008. Took years to get back to where I’m putting money in instead of just serving an upside down mortgage. Read more

This describes a lot of my patients. They did everything they thought they were supposed to. They went to school or received training, got jobs, bought houses, saved money and now that they’ve retired, they’re struggling to live on their savings and their Social Security. Worse, in some ways, is that their hard work Read more

Vaping? Yeah, I guess that’s cool.

Something that bothers me about all of the coverage of Daniel Holtzclaw is that I haven’t seen and heard enough about the gorgeous human being who brought him to justice: Jannie Ligons. I’ve endured every angle of Holtzclaw’s rage-y, deflated mug, and haven’t heard enough about the first police complaint, the first