Mar 16, 2021BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sighHey 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. …Health4 min readHealth4 min read
Mar 11, 2020how to survive a long-haul flight — 2020/coronovirus updateIn 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…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read
Jan 6, 2020dreaming and nightmares: a little science for exhausted feministsSleep. It’s important. …Sleep7 min readSleep7 min read
Jan 6, 2020Member-only10 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…Sleep4 min readSleep4 min read
Apr 7, 2019Why (and How to) Be Beautiful — tl;dr: smash the patriarchyToday 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…Feminism6 min readFeminism6 min read
Sep 25, 2018what to do when someone tells you they were sexually assaultedWith #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 Assault3 min readSexual Assault3 min read
Sep 11, 2018how to survive the midtermsI’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 Care3 min readSelf Care3 min read
Sep 7, 2018Girl? Let’s Talk about Your Beautiful FaceOf 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…Grief7 min readGrief7 min read
Aug 16, 2018four books that are the opposite of 2018Do 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 Oliver2 min readJohn Oliver2 min read
May 5, 2018I’m sorry you’re lonely but it’s not my job to help you: the science of incelsMoira 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…Incels7 min readIncels7 min read
