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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.

I’d be happy to donate my collection of button hooks, knitting needles, and turpentine bottles. Read more

sure ok.

Thank you so much for following the project. Ms Mary Everett is by far the person who never escapes my daily consciousness. The last time I saw her was at her funeral in September, and I have not been able to return to Fort Pierce since. She was very special to me and like the community that knew her for a lifetime, I Read more

I think my very least favorite type of comment on this site is the entitled, self-righteously outraged comment about how Jezebel hasn’t covered Topic X. Read more

So fitting! Did you post this gif after the Orlando nightclub shooting too? Read more

Jeebus, when are these dumbass fuckers going to realize that freely available contraceptives is an amazing way to prevent abortions? Read more

The women’s college problem is unfortunately acute for Mary Baldwin (and others you mentioned here—Sweet Briar and Randolph, plus Hollins) because they are also all located in more or less the same place. Four women’s colleges within a 2-hour drive on the interstate were bound to cannibalize each other. Even some Read more

MBU Alum here. When I attended it was as an early-admittance student (I enrolled at 16 - on a scholarship- to escape a frankly torturous home life) who didn’t have a high school degree. My test scores were very high, so I got in. I came from an excruciatingly conservative family. One of the only reasons that I was Read more

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.Currently working at a small liberal arts college and enrollment drives everything. Your yearly budget is based on a projection of an enrollment goal. If you don’t make goal (lets say within 10 students)...no big deal, you can move some money around. If you don’t make it within say, 40 students, your year can be Read more

Thank you so much. I’m part Berber (that is: from North Africa) and we are in no way connected to the Gulf (nor is my family on that side even Muslim). The video is reprehensible (hearing the woman say ضرب with such sang-froid was chilling), and yet (and I know that chritter means super-well) Morocco is about as Read more

I’ve told this story here at Jez but I will repeat it again. And I’m calling my former rep in PA and telling them and anyone who will listen the same story over and over again until they vote this 20 week ban down when it comes up again.

At our 20 week ultrasound we found out our son had a condition where he Read more

This same thing happened to me before the days of video. My boyfriend “shared” me with his friends in a dorm room after I had passed out from drinking. I only had odd Rosemary’s baby type remembrances, and could very well have thought I had dreamt the whole thing until the next morning, when he actually bragged about Read more