I’ve always loved Passover. Okay, not always; my three-quarters Jewish, mostly atheist family and I didn’t throw seders when I was growing up. But ever since college, I’ve been coming together with friends to read the Haggadah (albeit one with a queer, feminist, decidedly modern bent), break matzah apart, dip parsley in salt water, ask … Read more
I guess it would take Taylor Swift to make it official: 2024 is the year of the diss track. January ended with an all-out blood bath (and, mostly, a horror show) between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion after years of subtle shots between the two. Then Ice Spice and Latto entered the ring, and … Read more
Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, dropped today, and it’s full of the kinds of astute observations about millennial existence that we’ve come to expect from the pop star. Case in point: in her duet with Florence Welch, “Florida!!!”, she sings: “My friends all smell of weed or little babies.” Can you imagine … Read more
The news of any aughts-era reality show streaming on Bravo is always exciting to me (if either of my parents, who spent a significant amount of money to educate me, are reading that sentence, sorry), but I have to admit that I’m especially excited about the streaming availability of NYC Prep, the 2009 Bravo show … Read more
Control freaks have had a bad rap. I should know: I am one, just like Kristen Stewart, my sister in arms, who recently revealed—in her signature rockstar drawl—that she’s “like, a total control freak” on the Smartless podcast, while discussing her desire to direct films instead of act in them. “If I could just design … Read more
In my first pregnancy it looked like this: At our anatomy scan, the doctor was able to see that the umbilical cord was attached, not in the center of the placenta, where it was supposed to be, but off to the side. In my second pregnancy, it came when they measured a fold at the … Read more
The past year has brought many headlines about polyamory: “Are You Ready for Polyamory?” “Is Polyamory the Future?” “The Dos and Don’ts of Polyamorous Relationships.” There have been practical guides (a key takeaway, your shared calendar may get very complicated), firsthand accounts, and columns about very specific relationship challenges, like, say, parenting decisions made in … Read more
This might sound weird for a lesbian to say (we famously like sports, right?), but I’ve been avoiding women’s basketball for most of my life. I grew up visiting my dad’s parents in West Hartford, Connecticut, not far from where the legendary UConn women’s basketball team practiced, and my grandfather was a big fan of … Read more
Yet his monologue wasn’t only that: While Youssef’s comments about Palestine were clearly heartfelt and genuine, that anecdote ends with a joke about his buddy Brian’s dog. (And, leading up to it, there are references to—among other things—Ramadan, Michigan vape shops, wanting a trans woman for president, and Uber drivers.) He deftly manages to toe … Read more
Out of all the erogenous zones, boobs are the jolliest, aren’t they? Sacks of fat and glands and ducts that add up to something far greater than the sum of their parts. You can feed babies with them; they look great in oil on canvas; I sometimes find it comforting to cup mine when I’m … Read more
