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Emily Nagoski
Emily Nagoski

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Mar 16, 2021

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!” — which is basically my life motto — so of course it’s, like, my fave. You should totally watch these takedowns about milk and vaccines not causing autism. …

Health

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BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh
BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh
Health

4 min read


Mar 11, 2020

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 said then was: choose a good seat and bring your own entertainment. Also: wipes and hydration. I fly more now than I did then…

Coronavirus

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

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Jan 6, 2020

dreaming and nightmares: a little science for exhausted feminists

Sleep. It’s important. …

Sleep

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Sleep

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Jan 6, 2020

10 Tips to Fall Asleep (or Back Asleep)

Sleep is important. It’s so important, we made an entire podcast episode about it, and that episode is the second longest we’ve recorded (the only longer episode was “How to Rage” — VERY important), and still that episode contained only a fraction of what we wanted to say about how…

Sleep

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Sleep

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Apr 7, 2019

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, “The message of inclusivity is meant to be helpful, but it can actually do harm.” As a person whose job description is “to…

Feminism

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

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Sep 25, 2018

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 they’ve experienced. Co-survivors — people who love and support survivors of violence — need to know how to respond when someone tells them they’ve been assaulted. …

Sexual Assault

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what to do when someone tells you they were sexually assaulted
what to do when someone tells you they were sexually assaulted
Sexual Assault

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Sep 11, 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 by everything they have to do and yet still worry that they’re not doing “enough.” What I learned in that process contradicted all the standard advice…

Self Care

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Self Care

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Sep 7, 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 self-help book for women with my sister; I’m super-interested in what women love to read in a self-help book, plus I’m a longtime reader of self-help myself…

Grief

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Girl? Let’s Talk about Your Beautiful Face
Girl? Let’s Talk about Your Beautiful Face
Grief

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Aug 16, 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 effects? A kind of 2018 antivenin? May I recommend a little reading? Here are four books that have helped me: It’s Not Always Depression…

John Oliver

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four books that are the opposite of 2018
four books that are the opposite of 2018
John Oliver

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May 5, 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 read Ross Douthat’s NYT Op-Ed on the “redistribution” of sex. I just want to add a little science and history. His piece begins, “ One lesson to be drawn from recent Western…

Incels

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

7 min read

Emily Nagoski

Emily Nagoski

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

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