Dear Internet,
Today is my last day at Jezebel, a job I’ve really loved for the better part of almost three years. At this crazy place called Gawker, I got a chance to work in an environment that didn’t make me want to physically harm people (for the most part!) while passionately writing and producing videos about topics I cared about whether they were serious, frivolous or infuriating. I’ll always look back on my time at Jezebel as enlightening and inspiring. That said, I’m headed back to freelance and to spend more time with my newborn, as my husband and I attempt sleep training and try to remember to walk our spoiled dog. Pray for us; Team No Sleep is real.
I’ve loved working with the ladies and gents of the Jez mafia and will miss them much, especially the loopy Slack conversations about random internet foolishness like that one boob. I’ll always remember rooftop drinks at the old (best) office, adopting Matt Hardigree’s brass knuckle mug for after hours whiskey consumption, cuddling with Fig the office dog, pitch meetings with at least six bottles of wine, relentlessly teasing Nick Stango because he’s the Italian Jersey little bro I never knew I had, sneaking pizza into Sweet and Vicious and cajoling the manager to change the music or the television because Jezebel was bankrolling his night so GIVE IN TO US FAM, shrieking after watching Madonna fall down the stairs during the EMAs and terrifying the entire office, and shooting This Broad’s Life with Janet Mock in 10 degrees but being fine with it because I was having a ball.
All in all, being a Jezebel is a fucking blast, truly and I’ve been blessed to be a part of a great legacy of lady blogging. On my way out, here are some of my favorite lady blobs:
Dear Lana Del Rey: You Are Not a Latina Gangsta Girl, So Cut the Shit.
Lisa Bonet: The Cosby Show Kid Who Got Away
Ida B. Wells, Anti-Lynching Crusader and Mother of Intersectionality
Why Can’t Baltimore’s Black Female Mayor Stop Saying ‘Thug’?
A Jezebel Mom Remembers the Wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Di
I Took Rutgers’ Beyoncé Course: A Master Class in Pop & Black Feminism
Would You Smash?: Aunties Reveal Who’d Get The Panties At Essence Fest
When Rachel Dolezal Attended Howard University, She Was Still White
First Black Sororities Tell Members Not to Wear Logos While Protesting
When the Cops Brutalize You, It’s Hard to Forget
The Circle of Life for Your Underpants
MTV’s White People Documentary Preaches to a Different But Open Choir
Nicki Minaj Can’t Be All Things to All People, Let Alone Herself
The Power and Sadness of a Black President’s Call for Grace
Here’s Why Donald Glover, Hero Artist, Is My New Crush
Haters Gonna Hate: An Interview with Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu
Drake Needs a Dating Intervention, Stat
How Tiny’s Eye Color Changing Surgery Actually Works
And finally, my shining moment: Buns of Anarchy: A Retrospective of Jax Teller’s Beautiful Butt
Bye, y’all.