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2024

The Cure for HG is Coming, July, Romper

What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs?, April, The Cut

Alabama’s IVF Patients Are Stuck In Embryo Purgatory, February, The Cut

2023

Damages: An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back, December, The Atavist Magazine

What We Still Don’t Know About Heavy Flow, October, The Cut

2022

Gynecology Has a Pain Problem, May, The Cut

2021

Recovering From a Vaginal Birth Can Take Longer Than You’d Think, August, Giddy

In Season 3 American Gods Has Lost the Magic It Once Had, January, Paste

2020

It Still Stings: When The Good Wife’s Finn and Alicia’s “Will They?” Becomes a “Why Won’t They?”, December, Paste

In The Magicians Finale, a World Ends—but Hope Lives, April, Paste

When targeted ads feel a little too targeted, April, Vox

Self Made and Hillary Illustrate How Appearance Is Tied to Women’s Economic Freedom, March, Paste

The Magicians Season 5 Works Through Grief with Grace, January, Paste

2019

Flight attendants keep getting sick. It’s likely because of their uniforms., July, Vox

Why Sex Scenes on The Magicians Look Different Than Those on the Rest of TV, April, Paste

Helen Oyeyemi on ‘Gingerbread’, Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood, March, Longreads

The Future of the Open Office Means Saying Goodbye to Your Desk, January, Forge

2018

The Business of Blending In, August, Topic

Elizabeth Taylor and the Myth of Blue Eye Shadow, March, Hazlitt

Treating My Anxiety Made My Sex Life Worse, February, The Cut

In the 1920s, a Makeover Saved This Woman From the Death Penalty, January, Racked

2017

A History of Women Who Burned to Death in Flammable Dresses, December, Racked

When Anxiety Feels More Physical Than Mental, September, The Cut