HEALTH // FEBRUARY 2020
Women need their bodies back.
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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.
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
