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Jessica Bennett, Timi Sotire, Amaya Nichole, Rana Alsoufi, Katie Bradshaw, Sharon AttiaUnpacking what’s in the culture – with a feminist spin.
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A 2026 in-and-out list, courtesy of my students
You’re reading Wait, Really?, an occasional newsletter unpacking what’s in the culture, with a feminist spin. This one is a collab with the NYU Graduate Journalism Class of 2025 — and my students in “Reporting the Zeitgeist,” a class I teac...
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E. Jean Carroll's Uneasy Peace
Hi there! It’s me, your host, Jessica Bennett, and a quick note to say I’ve got a new job. After 10 years of writing for The Times, I’m returning to magazines — New York Magazine, specifically. This is my first feature for them, out in prin...
Is Heterosexuality a Prison?
“There are certain towns I call ‘bro towns,” the sociologist Jane Ward told me. We were sitting in the kitchen of her sunny home in Santa Barbara, California; the yard outside was ringed with citrus trees.
Ward, a young-looking 51, was in...
Goodbye, ambition?
I used to be ambitious. For as long as I can remember, really, I had this thing inside me, this unquenchable thirst, this drive, this need to achieve. It was the thing that separated me from my classmates, the thing my family could never un...
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Writer and editor at The New York Times, teaching journalism at NYU. I write about women, culture and the way we live now. Author of "Feminist Fight Club" & "This Is 18." Podcasting at “In Retrospect.”
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