sbedwards
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.

The idea that Jezebel is posting content that is critical of Dems in power (like Pelosi) in a blatant attempt to shit stir on the left is inaccurate. Read more

My faves #1 Chris is his bearded dad turn in “A Wrinkle In Time” Read more

The “shooter was bullied” narrative comes straight from Columbine, where it’s been totally debunked.
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Every architecture firm I have worked at has been populated by hoardes of arrogant, sexist, and oft-times harassing men. I have sadly concluded that it is a part of this very ego-driven profession. The male architect “god complex” is real, and the women adjacent to it suffer the consequences. Read more

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This might be callous of me to admit but I can’t help but be fascinated when I hear all this ballyhoo about opioids and think how different the narrative was, just a few years prior, when the public believed it was only black people facing the business end of a national drug problem. I covered an opioid awareness Read more

In fact, being strong is one of the reasons women stay far too long before they recognize what they’re experiencing as abuse. You think you can’t be in an abusive relationship, because you’re too strong to have allowed that...so it has to be something else. Read more

I really enjoy the portrait of Obama; the colors are so vibrant and as a result the man himself comes off with the kind of inherent warmth that we know he exudes in real life but that a serious portrait would likely fail to capture. By painting him with a very serious expression against a background of vibrant green

Another element of himpathy is the push for forgiveness and healing — sometimes literal days after the action. But when people say “forgiveness,” what they really mean it moving on, being over the transgression, and never mentioning the incident again. We’ve become so focused on that, that we don’t realize that Read more

Event though it is in fact another layer of manufacture, I really like how her current photo style presents a sense of the imperfect and temporal. I love finding old photos of people I don’t know; there’s some chaotic beauty in the haphazard framing and unconsidered details as well as the technically unsophistocated Read more