Stassa Edwards

I’m fascinated by how Trump is obsessed with monument building (the border wall, remodeling the White House, the National Garden of American Heroes) while simultaneously being so bad at it. Say what you will about fascists, but they usually have the monument building down

I long for Kinja

Being subjected to Hulk Hogan and Lena Dunham discourse again and the blogs are dead

So close bsky.app/profile/pale...

What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women? “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.

This is so smart www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

And creating that low-cost workforce will be overwhelmingly the work of women, both by sacrifice and giving birth (think how the rhetoric of morality is now no playtime but a few thousand dollars for having a baby) bsky.app/profile/atru...

The forgotten secret Nazi bases in the Arctic The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known WWII battle over forecasting the weather.

Paywalled (alas), but if you'd like to learn about the secret Nazi weather stations of Svalbard during WWII and the strange battles that were fought several hundred miles north of Europe, I got you covered over at National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Seeing a lot of posts about the aesthetics of resistance that can’t quite acknowledge that “cringe” is almost always synonymous with “middle age women”

The fascist image needs the erotic aesthetic—and Sontag identified this structure decades ago. Noem’s video is a visual bookend to Trump holding a Bible in front of a church—they exist solely as images meant to excite

The Triumph of Fascist Aesthetics Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I wrote this four years ago, and since then the archive of Trump’s fascist aesthetic has become more expansive, but its purpose remains effective static www.jezebel.com/the-triumph-...

Just learned that I was a gender studies major at an Ivy

Thinking a lot about Jenny Brown’s thesis that all Republican policies makes sense if you understand that their only goal is to produce a low-cost workforce with the least amount social of investment. No need for childhood education, vaccines, food or anything that costs money

'Faerie smut' is having a moment — just like it did in 1500 Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years.

I had the pleasure of writing a bit about the history behind the “faerie smut” publishing phenomenon! www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

“Imaginary power is a dreadful thing to lose. Their aggrievedness – my aggrievedness – at having had it taken away is endless: it’s MAGA’s reason for being” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

[sobs]

Anna…. please

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jail for that lede

Hearing Things Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.

fucked around and made a new (independent/worker-owned) music and culture website w/my friends :') www.hearingthings.co

Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden Soon after Clementina Hawarden began taking photographs in the mid-19th century, her eye caught on doubles, reflections, her daughters glimpsed in the mirror. Stassa Edwards examines the role that rep...

I wrote about Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden and narratives of reproduction, both physical and photographic publicdomainreview.org/essay/throug...

Pro Choice Zip Up | Bonfire Show off your Pro-Choice stance while supporting EMA and accessible abortions!. Abortion is one of the safest and most common medical procedures in the United States....

One from EMA in Florida (doing important work in the South!) www.bonfire.com/pro-choice-z...

So sorry to hear this; it was always such a pleasure working with you and writing at Lapham’s!

ugh!

Absolutely love living in a state that refused the Medicare expansion

There are too many Substacks. Can everyone just write for The Awl again?

Not sure where they started because I haven’t written for them for year, but they recently asked me to contribute and offered to pay their standard rate

They pay now—not enough but on par with Lapham’s

Spent some time looking at the French porcelains at the Met and ended up here