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.
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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…
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…