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Posted on October 27, 2015
Misandry for LOLs and Intrapersonal Alchemy
By Cybele Knowles One of my favoritest funniest things I’ve read on the internet in recent memory was this tweet from Shaadi Devereaux, a Black and AfroIndigenous writer who uses media to build narratives for Trans Women of… Read More
Posted on August 30, 2015
Kaleidoscopic Marina Franklin
By Cybele Knowles Last week, Marina Franklin did a GREAT set on Conan, which was a not-turn-downable invitation for me to write about one of my favorite stand-up comedians. First of all, though, I just want you to watch Marina’s performance…. Read More
Posted on August 26, 2015
Maria Bamford and Me
By Aisha Sabatini Sloan When I moved home at age thirty to live with my mother, I slept in the den because the apartment was so full of boxes, I couldn’t make a pathway between the doorway of… Read More
Posted on August 21, 2015
On Broad City and When Someone Doesn’t Love Your Favorite Show As Much As You Do
By Hannah Ensor “We should stop trying to introduce people to the things we love,” I said to my partner last week. We had just made my parents listen to an episode and a half of The Mystery… Read More
Posted on August 14, 2015
On Joyce Carol Oates, Stand-Up Comedy, Poetry, and How Each Genre Is a Special Snowflake and We Need Them All
By Cybele Knowles Joyce Carol Oates says a lot of unconsidered sh*t on Twitter and we should just ignore her, but I couldn’t resist responding to this: I wasn’t the only one to take the bait: in about 24… Read More
Posted on July 28, 2015
Bite-Sized Pieces of Amy Schumer
By Laura C.J. Owen I’ve never seen a full episode of Amy Schumer’s show, I don’t really care for her stand-up, and at the time of the writing of this post, I hadn’t yet seen her movie, Trainwreck…. Read More
Posted on June 20, 2015
The Canon Behaving Badly: “Texts from Jane Eyre” by Mallory Ortberg
By Cybele Knowles “The Western canon is full of jerks from beginning to end—just mean awful people who make terrible decisions and ruin everyone else’s lives.” In Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary… Read More