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So I finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo pretty quickly — as the friend who recommended it put it, it’s a faux literary beach read, so it’s not too hard to get through — and while I am loathe to devote too much time and energy to a silly fluff book, I do want to talk…

One of the things about being Jewish (oh, if you didn’t know, I’m Jewish) is that no one actually knows what, exactly, “Jewish people” are. I don’t mean that in the sense of some antisemitic conspiracy about how we’re all secret lizard people; I mean more that the boundaries of Jewishness and Judaism are porous,…

A little while ago — weeks ago? months ago? — one of my dearest friends texted me to say she’d just read a book that she thought I would enjoy: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I put it on my library hold list (I have so many books that I really only try to buy…

Here is what I know: back in the 1990s, back at the height of bisexual activism, when Anything That Moves was still being published and the B and the T had yet to be fused with the L and the G, there was a bisexual political activism group known as BiPOL. That’s about the extent of what…

It is a weird thing, to be a bisexual woman in the midst of a mental health crisis. I appear to be pulling myself out of the pit of my despair — the worst of the depression broke some time last week, and my natural mania began to return around Thursday — and I am…

I feel like I need to begin this newsletter with a personal disclosure: I am the daughter of two scientists. They’re both retired now, but for many years my mother worked as a biochemist (and specifically a virologist/HIV researcher) and my father worked as a biophysicist. So generally speaking, I am a fan of science.…

Another day, another person tweeting some bullshit about how interesting it is that bi people just keep ending up in hetero relationships. Must we do this again? There are so many reasons why I simply do not care to engage with this line of Just Asking Questions, most notably that it seems pretty clear that even within…

There is a sentiment I hear from time to time that never fails to irk me; it’s currently top of mind because I recently saw someone say it on Twitter (it doesn’t matter who, this is a common enough sentiment that it’s basically just in the ether). It more or less boils down to this:…

Many years ago, when I was a significantly more chaotic person who made vastly worse choices in her dating life, I had a brief fling with a total mess of a man. He was a restaurant worker and aspiring gossip blogger with a vicious streak running through him; he was given to brash and violent…

I don’t know how much attention you have been paying to the news about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (aka SVB, and don’t worry, you don’t need to know much about it for this essay) and I don’t know if you are a regular reader of the Wall Street Journal (I, myself, am not), but the…