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Amanda Hess

  • Kyle Williams

    The Singular They

    For the New York Times, Amanda Hess gives us a brief history of the increasingly prominent and ambiguously-gendered singular they, from usage in Shakespeare to Girls and The Argonauts.

  • Dawn Pier

    The Stockholm Syndrome of Sexual Assault

    For Slate, Amanda Hess examines yet another first-person confessional: sexual assault victim Jenny Kutner’s essay “The Other Side of the Story,” published in  Texas Monthly. The power of Kutner’s story is that it lends insight into a particular type of victimization—the kind…

  • Lauren O'Neal

    The Changing Face of Sex Work

    A University of Chicago survey found that fewer men are paying for sex—or did it? In an interview with Slate‘s Amanda Hess, Post Whore America blogger Melissa Gira Grant takes a second look at the survey results and challenges the idea…