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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.

Bernie Sanders has a plan to outlaw all period pain if you dum bitchez would just LISTEN!!11! Read more

I am 30 and in a STEM field. I had a baby last year and took 5 months off. Read more

My god, you would be amazed at how many otherwise ‘progressive’ profs I’ve met that will still spout out the most sexist shit about women in academia. Mainly the comments seem to be around how the ladies shouldn’t bother trying to get a tenured position if they want kids, because obviously that’s going to take up too Read more

Congratulations on doggedly pursuing the point, and very nearly getting it within your grasp Read more

Then good thing what Christina wrote is actually not true. These superdelegates may have already pledged their support to Hillary, but they are free to change their minds at any time and would almost never go against the will of the voters (unless, somehow, we ended up with a Trump situation on our hands on the Read more

My kidlet loves Elsa. She also doesn’t know all the words to the song, so her version is “Let it go, Oh no!” and she sings it over and over again.
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Sympathies. My children “sing” the first few bars of the Imperial March from the time they wake me up at 6 until they go to bed. Read more

I give thanks to the parenting gods every day my little ones didn’t get super into Frozen. Read more

My nieces are still obsessive about this movie... frankly, I thought it was overrated. I love the message with the sister theme, but really, the story was ... lacking

I am not a parent and have tried to tell myself not to comment on parenting articles. Read more

Who wants to sneak a flask in with me so we can get wasted in the front row?

Just thinking about all the amazing Blu Ivy gifs that are going to come out of this video is giving me life. Read more

that little boy in a hoodie in front of the police, and the cutting to the “stop shooting us”... damn, that did me in. Read more

I had a tough week, but this makes me happy. While forced birthers may not listen to reason, they have no choice but to listen to a judge.