HYSTERICAL
Elissa BassistHYSTERICAL is a newsletter about the book Hysterical, which is about how a woman’s voice develops (or doesn’t) in a culture where men talk and women should really keep it down.
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New Series for Women's History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and streamers will deliver new, groundbreaking series centering women.
Law & Order: Special Women’s Unit. An old (40) woman never gets around to marriage and is interrogated by police, who eventually lose in...
Films Shouldn't Win Awards Unless They Pass the Bechdel Test
I really do not “get” awards or award shows.
I cannot care about honors like the Academy Awards where 67% of the voters are men and 81% are white, and of the 13,445 nominees since 1929, 17% have been women and 83% men and less than 2% wom...
Medical gaslighting
Since everyone is sick right now, let’s review how to visit the doctor if you’re not a straightwhitecisman.
“What if nothing’s wrong with you?” a gastroenterological asked me the day before she called with the results of my blood work that...
Too Emotional?!?
After she died, Queen Elizabeth was celebrated as being a woman who never said what she was thinking. The New Yorker reported that “the only time she misbehaved in public was at her christening. She cried throughout, and had to be dosed wit...
Welcome to HYSTERICAL
Not to be dramatic . . .
but from 2016 to 2018 I saw 20+ medical professionals for mysterious pain that traveled around my woman’s body — around my neck, my back, my pussy, and my crack (credit: the rapper Khia).
I had what millions o...
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Author of HYSTERICAL, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor / Co-author of INSIDE JOKES: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers (2026) / Humor writing teacher / Virgo
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