10 Bridesmaid Dresses, A Retrospective
10 for 2020
At 17, I’m asked by a friend two years my senior to a be a bridesmaid in her wedding, and despite having only recently gotten my braces off, I take it as a sign that I am a grown woman. My first official duty is to accompany her and the other bridesmaids to a nearby […]
"Like Lilith Fair, minus the angst"
What Broad City gets right about female friendship
Among the largely unacknowledged truths of contemporary female life is that women’s foundational relationships are as likely to be with one another as they are with the romantic partners who, we’re told, are supposed to complete us. –Rebecca Traister ### The final season of the critically acclaimed sitcom Broad City was released to Hulu a […]
For the Daughters of my Friends
I want them to revere every soft fold and strong muscle of their bodies, only speaking to themselves as they would to someone they love.
Last winter, two of my closest friends gave birth to baby girls within a week of each other. I am nearing 30 but lucky enough to still count my circle of girlfriends from college as my best friends, despite no longer living alongside one other in shoe-box-sized dorm rooms that smell faintly of coffee and […]
Harder than Forgetting: A review of Brandi Carlile’s By the Way, I Forgive You
It is only in letting pain serve as midwife, that we are delivered to the place where new life is possible.
“The last thing I want on this record is for it to sound like I’m using forgiveness in the white evangelical use of the term,” Brandi Carlile explains to Rolling Stone’s Jonathan Bernstein, referencing the title of her 6th studio album, By the Way, I Forgive You. “I worry that people in the world might […]
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