HEALTH // FEBRUARY 2020
Women need their bodies back.
MEDIUM // OCTOBER 2019
Traditional media has come a long way on self-acceptance. But the message is muddied in online spaces.
BITCH // FEBRUARY 2019
Mostly white, mostly male, mostly thin food writers and chefs have turned being thin—and eating in the labor-intensive way they think guarantees thinness—into a moral imperative.
PARENTS // APRIL, 2018
With my first pregnancy, I did everything right, but I still couldn’t protect my little girl. Here’s how I learned to embrace the imperfect.
SLATE // JANUARY, 2017
We’re fortunate that our insurance paid for most of it. But if Republicans remake the health care system, kids like her may not be so lucky.
BUZZFEED // MARCH, 2015
I’d always been self-conscious about my abdomen. When I got endometriosis, everyone else became conscious of it too.
ELLE // JUNE, 2013
Fitness-phobe Virginia Sole-Smith discovers the hidden formula.
NYLON // APRIL, 2011
Virginia Sole-Smith went to beauty school and all she got was this interesting perspective.
SLATE // NOVEMBER, 2010
The $1.8 billion business of hair removal is our most intimate and uncomfortable form of beauty labor.
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