Barbs Honeycutt

Reader Essay: MY Jenny

written byMelanie Crist

November 18, 2022

I’ve never wanted kids of my own. Which is precisely why I found myself exiting a Pasadena fertility clinic with a grab bag containing an informational booklet, an application for financing, and a pen that contained small plastic sperm swimming around in its cap.  

I’ll explain. 

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Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world

A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already...

Rebecca Solnit

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We still call women hysterical – but now we do it through BotoxAs women train their faces not to move and inject away their expressions, the result is faces that never read as angry, with no laugh lines to betray how much fun you hadShareLink copied ✔️October

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Abroad

Smile like you mean it

To cope with the anxiety of unstructured socialising as an introvert, I've developed a charismatic 'on the job' alter ego. It has totally backfired.

Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Dec 06, 2024

Margaret Qualley pictured by Greg Williams, British Vogue (May 2024)

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I hope these words find you sane.

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the quiet rebellion of a little life

caitlyn

Dec 09, 2024

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there’s a pervasive myth that has seeped into every corner of our current reality claiming that in order to have a meaningful life, we’re told that worth is measured in titles, achievements, and the scope of our influence. it’s a myth that demands endless striving, as though the only... See more

the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?

We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.

By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point 

Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLUM Los

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The Cult of Yesterday

Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia

River Quintana

Feb 09, 2024

Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake

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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This... See more

The Age of Abandonment

We simply don’t believe anyone will stay

Freya India

Oct 09, 2024

Screenshots, TikTok: @yngpolly, @manelique

I’ve written a lot about my generation and fear. Our fear of love, and fear of life. But I’ve been getting the sense lately that there’s some ultimate fear underlying all this, running through everything. And I’m becoming... See more