JULY

• In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things
• Everyone needs to grow up

“The harms are undeniable,” says Cohen. “Bottom line: it’s a way of learning to love your oppressor. It takes an acute loss of agency and control and transforms it into a state to be desired and enjoyed. Once you embrace this way of being, the demands and rewards of adult life are going to seem all the more remote and all the more forbidding and unpleasurable.”

• Are we witnessing the demise of teen girl culture?
• Prestige TV Hates Women. And So Does Its Audience.
• The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts
• Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World!
• We're not allowed to be lonely anymore

Why is there such a gap between the people you know and the people you can rely on?

• screaming our way back to gender essentialism

AUGUST

• There's No Room For Women in a Barbie World
• Is Shakespeare for Everyone

SEPTEMBER

• The Problem With Plot Holes
• Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman
• The gruesome and mysterious case of exploding teeth
• On Game of Thrones, Sansa’s Revenge Is Nothing to Smile About
• composition of cisgender guilt

OCTOBER

• I Ruined Two Birthday Parties and Learned the Limits of Psychology
• I ATE THREE EGGS EVERY SINGLE MORNING FOR A WEEK - HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED
• HOW HORROR HELPS WITH PROCESSING GRIEF AND TRAUMA
• The H Word: Bringing the Horror Home
• Crush
• Violent Sameness
• RESURRECTING SCOTT HUTCHISON
• The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
• No Human Being Can Exist

NOVEMBER

• Is It My Body
• I DO NOT KEEP A DIARY
• The Cult of the Imperfect
• A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine
• Who the hell are 2girls1bottle?
• Roach Complex

Roland Barthes anticipated that impulse: “I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult,” which is to say, I’m baby.

• Why Does Everyone Want Their Crushes to Run Them Over?

DEZEMBER

• Ignoring A Problem Doesn’t Make It Go Away: On Lindsay Ellis and Anti-Native Racism
• Taylor Swift does not exist
• You're the dream you have not finished dreaming

The person plagued by the sensation that they cannot possibly begin to really live until all is safe and sound inside.

• Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising