I, like, write stuff.
I've written about popular culture, celebrities, nostalgia, old books, bad families, and what it's like to wear a robotic exoskeleton (it's weird).
Profiles of Beanie Feldstein, Elaine Welteroth, and the legacy of the Baby-Sitters Club for Parade
The Dixie Chicks Were Cancelled For Criticizing The President. Now They're Heroes. and We're All Dopamine Fasting Now for Refinery29
I was previously the Senior Features Editor at Bustle, where I spent 5 years writing about what Cher taught me about my estranged mother, what R.L. Stine finds scary, why Satan is so trendy on TV, why everyone hates on Mallory Pike, why there aren't really any sex robots for women, why people started obsessing over Mercury Retrograde, and what Prince taught me about dating. Plus also! women & ADHD, robotic exoskeletons, Miss America, my teenaged love for Monica Lewinsky, child-free women, haunted dolls, haunted hotels, and a bunch of other dang things.
I was on NPR's "All Things Considered," Buzzfeed's AM2DM, CBC's "Q," and Canadian TV shows The Social and eTalk promoting my book, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
I was on CBC's Out in the Open discussing the complicated reality of parental estrangement
Blame Horror Film Legend Vincent Price for the Rise of Celebrity Lifestyle Brands for the Daily Beast
I was on the Savage Lovecast discussing that most esoteric of sexual practices, grapefruiting
I was in a Fast Company video about my book, GLOP, and the best ways to be pretentious during the holiday season
The Glop Life-Style Guide to Healthy Eating (Plus Four Recipes!) for the New Yorker
I was part of a panel at the Strand celebrating the release of the Reductress book, How To Win At Feminism
Sienna Miller and the Rise of the Reactress and Bryce Dallas Howard's Heels Aren't Sexist for Slate
Scumbag, a fiction piece for Midnight Breakfast, was a Longform.org pick
I was profiled in 5 New York Women On Why They Don't Want Children for Refinery29
Ghosts Make Better Friends: A Book Report on 'Wait Til Helen Comes' by Mary Dowling Hahn for Vice
How to Save the 'Phantom Menace' in 7 Easy Steps, How to Redeem 'The Village' in 6 Easy Steps, and more for Yahoo! Movies Digital Magazine
My essay for Bitch Magazine on Tina Belcher of "Bob's Burgers" was named "Best Pop Culture Writing" of the week by The Atlantic and was a RogerEbert.com "Thumbnails" selection
My Mother Stole $30,000 From Me, and All I Got Was This Stupid Sense of Closure and Future Tense: Shopping for Fate with Storefront Psychics for The Toast
Popular Young Adult Literature, Revised for Today's Reader, Family-Style Restaurants That Appear Only in Dreams, The Hottest Fashion Looks for 2015 and Dating Advice Guides for Today's Modern Monster & more for The Hairpin
"Women Aren't Funny," a blog about feminism and comedy for Bitch Magazine, including a history of the "women aren't funny" meme, an examination of all-women comedy classes, and an interview with Jen Kirkman
Real American Horror Stories for GQ.com
Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls? for BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (FSG)
Guidance Counseling for Lost Magazine
Scumbag, a fiction piece for Midnight Breakfast, was a Longform.org pick
I was profiled in 5 New York Women On Why They Don't Want Children for Refinery29
Ghosts Make Better Friends: A Book Report on 'Wait Til Helen Comes' by Mary Dowling Hahn for Vice
How to Save the 'Phantom Menace' in 7 Easy Steps, How to Redeem 'The Village' in 6 Easy Steps, and more for Yahoo! Movies Digital Magazine
My essay for Bitch Magazine on Tina Belcher of "Bob's Burgers" was named "Best Pop Culture Writing" of the week by The Atlantic and was a RogerEbert.com "Thumbnails" selection
My Mother Stole $30,000 From Me, and All I Got Was This Stupid Sense of Closure and Future Tense: Shopping for Fate with Storefront Psychics for The Toast
Popular Young Adult Literature, Revised for Today's Reader, Family-Style Restaurants That Appear Only in Dreams, The Hottest Fashion Looks for 2015 and Dating Advice Guides for Today's Modern Monster & more for The Hairpin
"Women Aren't Funny," a blog about feminism and comedy for Bitch Magazine, including a history of the "women aren't funny" meme, an examination of all-women comedy classes, and an interview with Jen Kirkman
Real American Horror Stories for GQ.com
Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls? for BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (FSG)
Guidance Counseling for Lost Magazine
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