Reading Time: 3 minutes When a Texas woman was charged with murder after having an abortion, it seemed like foreshadowing for moments to come. Even though the charges were eventually dropped, the point had been made: this is a possible future for women in red states who try to exercise their reproductive rights. Now, with a draft opinion from […]
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Mom jeans are back, and it’s not a joke.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you remember the epic Saturday Night Live mom jeans sketch? I do. As a mom struggling to hang onto the shredded fibers of my youth, I thought it was hilarious. Back when my son was 8, I was still stripping part-time. And at 35, in dancer years I was like 80. I don’t think […]
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CounterSocial isn’t the ‘new Twitter’: It’s something much better
Reading Time: 13 minutes There’s a popular myth about a frog that stays in a pot of gradually heating water until it boils to death. It’s not true. The original frog takes a bit longer, but it does hop out. And yet, our fatalist belief in the myth of the dead frog makes a lot more sense after my […]