Ann Friedman - A long line of sick tickets

This edition was actually composed by my brain worm. Kindly ignore all typos and gaps in logic.

"I’ve always been a sick ticket, and I descend from a long line of sick tickets." An absolutely delightful conversation between Vaginal Davis and Rick Owens.

"We celebrated the Sabbath in silence with a thirty-minute cassette of Chopin, a six-pack of Stella Artois, and three boxes of Franzia." Lauren Fadiman spent time with American nuns, an endangered species. And Keziah Weir on what IVF science owes to 100 postmenopausal women of god.

Alicia Kennedy on what quinoa can tell us about global capitalism and climate crisis.

Brittney Griner talked to J Wortham about her experience in a Russian prison and her path to recovery.

If thin is in again—and we have “miracle drugs” to get us there—can we still love ourselves at any size? Samhita Mukhopadhyay on body positivity in the Ozempic era.

"In each war, the truth of what was done to women, and by whom, was muddied by propaganda." Azadeh Moaveni on sexual violence in wartime.

"Gray" divorce is sky-rocketing, reports Alicia Adamczyk. And Susan Dominus on how couples are making the often-rocky transition to retirement.

Jason Parham on the addictive pleasures of Instagram's illusions. I deleted the app from my phone more than 6 months ago and have been just checking DMs on my laptop occasionally... and I have to say that I don't miss it.

Kao Kalia Yang tells Jessica Nordell about the lessons she learned from her refugee mother.

Celia Mattison ranks movie proms.

Christina Catherine Martinez's brilliant "How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age."

Happy Bad Mother's Day from Glenn Danzig x Donna Summer. Is it a little embarrassing that a YouTube mashup captures my own aspirational parental identity most accurately? Maybe. I'm too busy dancing to care. If you wanna find hell with me, beep beep toot toot.

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