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BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh

Hey all, I really enjoy Health Care Triage, a video series on health-related issues that often includes the phrase “To the research!” —…

Mar 16, 2021

BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh

Mar 16, 2021

how to survive a long-haul flight — 2020/coronovirus update

In 2018 I wrote this summary of what I learned from watching several dozen “what I take on a flight” videos on YouTube. Mostly what people…

Mar 11, 2020

BURNOUT paperback cover

Mar 11, 2020

dreaming and nightmares: a little science for exhausted feminists

Sleep. It’s important. So important, we made an entire podcast episode about it, and that episode is the second longest we’ve recorded…

Jan 6, 2020

Jan 6, 2020

10 Tips to Fall Asleep (or Back Asleep)

Sleep is important.

Jan 6, 2020

Jan 6, 2020

Why (and How to) Be Beautiful — tl;dr: smash the patriarchy

Today I read an op-ed piece in the New York Times by writer Megan Nolan, titled, “Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful?” with the subtitle…

Apr 7, 2019

Why (and How to) Be Beautiful — tl;dr: smash the patriarchy

Apr 7, 2019

what to do when someone tells you they were sexually assaulted

With #metoo and #believesurvivors amplifying the conversation around sexual violence, more and more survivors are talking about what…

Sep 25, 2018

what to do when someone tells you they were sexually assaulted

Sep 25, 2018

how to survive the midterms

I’ve spent the last three years researching and writing a book called Burnout. My goal was to help women who feel overwhelmed and exhausted…

Sep 11, 2018

Sep 11, 2018

Girl? Let’s Talk about Your Beautiful Face

Of course I read Girl, Wash Your Face, the massively bestselling self-help book for women. I’ve spent the last three years writing a…

Sep 7, 2018

Girl? Let’s Talk about Your Beautiful Face

Sep 7, 2018

four books that are the opposite of 2018

Do you, like me, need a way to spend your time that isn’t merely avoidance of the horrorshow that is 2018, but actively counteracts its ill…

Aug 16, 2018

four books that are the opposite of 2018

Aug 16, 2018

I’m sorry you’re lonely but it’s not my job to help you: the science of incels

Moira Donegan’s piece in Cosmopolitan (yes, COSMO) succinctly captures the nauseated disbelief and righteous refusal with which women…

May 5, 2018

I’m sorry you’re lonely but it’s not my job to help you: the science of incels

May 5, 2018

I watched 79 “long-haul flight survival essentials” YouTube videos, so you don’t have to

I fly more than the average American.

May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

The Sensible Reason the #GOPtaxscam Says Life Starts at Conception

What is this definition of when life begins doing in a “tax bill”?

Dec 2, 2017

The Sensible Reason the #GOPtaxscam Says Life Starts at Conception

Dec 2, 2017

Me too

Because I wrote a book about women’s sexuality, a journalist recently asked me,”What do women need, for really great sex?”

Oct 16, 2017

Me too

Oct 16, 2017

The Story Hillary Tells in What Happened

There have been many reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, most of them written by journalists. Clinton is explicitly…

Sep 14, 2017

Sep 14, 2017

Beyoncé’s “tea and cookies” quote was a work of art

Have you noticed the mediocrity of the media’s coverage of Beyoncé’s use of Hillary Clinton’s so-called “gaffe” from 1992, when she was…

Nov 5, 2016

Nov 5, 2016

Arrite. I’m gonna say it.

“Anybody can grow up to be president,” the teacher said.

Jun 9, 2016

Jun 9, 2016

these graphs tell a shocking story about the rampant college hookup culture

I’ve been making graphs again, because: science. And sex.

Apr 22, 2016

these graphs tell a shocking story about the rampant college hookup culture

Apr 22, 2016

Everyone Is Lying about the Vaginas

(actually no one is lying; it’s just no one has any idea how to talk about them)

Feb 20, 2016

Everyone Is Lying about the Vaginas

Feb 20, 2016

pleasure is the measure

in which the reader learns that THEY are the REAL “little pink pill”

Aug 19, 2015

pleasure is the measure

Aug 19, 2015

the world cup of women’s sexual desire

who the “pink pill” will help, and why

Aug 11, 2015

the world cup of women’s sexual desire

Aug 11, 2015

Emily Nagoski

Emily Nagoski

sex educator, author, researcher, and activist. also: nerd. http://go.ted.com/emilynagoski and @emilynagoski

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