Stassa Edwards

Thinking about the tenor of Roiphe’s Harper’s piece on Me Too and the “angry extremes of feminism” she conjured up to defend Stein bsky.app/profile/math...

They really all stick together, huh?

(See also, the recent variation on this: conservatives warning about out of control wine moms and liberal women)

My takeaway from the Chomsky email (and something I learned quickly during my years at Jezebel) is that an accusation of hysteria is still perceived as rational and powerful

Molly I’m dying

“Young women” is the one that’s making me rage

Only a matter of time before the NYT seriously publishes the old Onion article, “Women: Why Are They So Fat?”

The Grand Ole Opry is 100 years old. Here’s why it endures. We went behind the scenes at the world's oldest radio show to understand how it endured 100 years—and why it might last 100 more.

Holy cow! For National Geographic, I went to see the Grand Ole Opry for its 100th anniversary and wrote 4000 words about the longest-running radio show in the world.

Featuring new interviews with Vince Gill, Steve Earle, and Pam Tillis.

I long for Kinja

Being subjected to Hulk Hogan and Lena Dunham discourse again and the blogs are dead

So close bsky.app/profile/pale...

What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women? “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.

This is so smart www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The forgotten secret Nazi bases in the Arctic The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known WWII battle over forecasting the weather.

Paywalled (alas), but if you'd like to learn about the secret Nazi weather stations of Svalbard during WWII and the strange battles that were fought several hundred miles north of Europe, I got you covered over at National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Seeing a lot of posts about the aesthetics of resistance that can’t quite acknowledge that “cringe” is almost always synonymous with “middle age women”

The fascist image needs the erotic aesthetic—and Sontag identified this structure decades ago. Noem’s video is a visual bookend to Trump holding a Bible in front of a church—they exist solely as images meant to excite

The Triumph of Fascist Aesthetics Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I wrote this four years ago, and since then the archive of Trump’s fascist aesthetic has become more expansive, but its purpose remains effective static www.jezebel.com/the-triumph-...

Just learned that I was a gender studies major at an Ivy

'Faerie smut' is having a moment — just like it did in 1500 Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years.

I had the pleasure of writing a bit about the history behind the “faerie smut” publishing phenomenon! www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

“Imaginary power is a dreadful thing to lose. Their aggrievedness – my aggrievedness – at having had it taken away is endless: it’s MAGA’s reason for being” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

[sobs]

Anna…. please

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jail for that lede

Hearing Things Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.

fucked around and made a new (independent/worker-owned) music and culture website w/my friends :') www.hearingthings.co

Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden Soon after Clementina Hawarden began taking photographs in the mid-19th century, her eye caught on doubles, reflections, her daughters glimpsed in the mirror. Stassa Edwards examines the role that rep...

I wrote about Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden and narratives of reproduction, both physical and photographic publicdomainreview.org/essay/throug...

Pro Choice Zip Up | Bonfire Show off your Pro-Choice stance while supporting EMA and accessible abortions!. Abortion is one of the safest and most common medical procedures in the United States....

One from EMA in Florida (doing important work in the South!) www.bonfire.com/pro-choice-z...

So sorry to hear this; it was always such a pleasure working with you and writing at Lapham’s!