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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.

All the ways that society tells us black women don’t matter, regardless of race or pedigree. Imagine if a young white woman physician in a trauma center in Chicago was gunned down. All the headlines would be about her as you don’t get a “worthier victim” than that. But even when it is our best and brightest, we are Read more

Her constituents did that already. Read more

Highly recommend the Andrea Long Chu review that was linked to.  Read more

Thank you so much for this interview. Charlie’s Angels was the first show I remember watching regularly. I realize now that what I probably admired the most about the show was Jean Coulter’s work. Read more

My greatest accomplishment in life is winning the Caption This contest several years ago. I miss seeing that mess :( Read more

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If you like Keeley Hawes, then you should watch Ashes to Ashes. It’s a sequel to the John Simm series Life on Mars, which you really have to watch first, to understand who everyone is.

Went to middle school in central Florida. Can confirm that living there makes someone think this is a solid life choice.
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For the longest time I didn’t watch this show because it’s not the kind of show I usually watch. I’m more of a action and mystery show kind of person. I finally watched it after all the talk about it at the Emmy’s, and I loved it. I really loved it, and I wasn’t expecting to even like it. I’m really looking forward to Read more

I do want a revival of 1990's hair, but not the godawful Rachel. Bring back the Pixie Cut, you cowards! Read more

That 70s Show premiered in 1998, The Wonder Years premiered in 1988, and Happy Days premiered in 1974. Nostalgia is very much pegged to a 20-25 year gap Read more

I’m just so disappointed that this article didn’t begin “Avril Lavigne isn’t dead--she’s born again.” It was RIGHT THERE!  Read more

Dude, the female directors he mentioned as sending material out to are great directors in their own right who have already made great works, but the schlockier stuff that Blumhouse does would be a terrible fit for them. Also, Spielberg actually got to write a lot of his earlier movies, including his debut film. Read more

Q-Tip’s “Teasing me just like Tisha/did Martin” line on “Find a Way” was so unbelievably fucked up and it never dawned on me at the time. Read more

When my husband and I got engaged, I was living with a roommate. To save money for the wedding, rather than re-upping my lease, I moved back into my childhood home. This meant my parents and grandparents (who lived there) were always keeping an eye out to be sure we weren’t fornicating.

So, being creative, young Read more

I think she believed that Africa was going to be like one giant Ralph Lauren photo shoot, with beautiful Waspy white people elegantly draped over Land Rovers, or posing with cheetahs on the savannah. This whole trip just screams “noblesse oblige.”
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Her name is Saga? Holy shit... Ragnarok, here we come. Read more

I just want to point that this article is on The Slot, the political sub-blog for Jezebel, and not Deadspin, the sports blog. It was just shared on Deadspin. Read more

Interesting. Now, would you ever entertain a not-leaving-Jezebel conversation Read more

I know I’ve told this story before, but my mother was almost another Geraldine Santoro. Well before Roe, when she was still in her early 20s, she had to get a back-alley abortion. She told me the story once, of waking up in a pool of her own blood in a hotel room, alone. The person who’d done the procedure had already Read more