Most Recently:
- “Are Women People?” (The Hairpin)
The Occupy Movement
- On The December 12 Shutdown of the Port of Oakland (n+1: Occupy! An OWS-Inspired Gazette, #3).
- The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto the Street at Occupy Oakland (The Awl)
The Athenian Mercury series, on the first advice column in English:
- Part 1: Intro: “Dear Athenian Mercury: Questions and Answers from the First Advice Column in English” (The Awl)
- Part 2: “The Non-Reproductive Sex Edition” (The Awl)
- Part 3: “The Mouse That Crawled Up Inside of a Man and Other Urban Legends of 17th-century England” (The Awl)
- Part 4: “The Fumes of the Wine Do Ascend, and Other Pieces on 17th-Century Drinking” (The Awl)
On Social Media and Activism
- Twitter as a forum for horizontal Muslim feminism: “In Which Mona Eltahawy Moderates a Muslim Feminist Revolution” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- How Twitter exposes various forms of trolling and harassment specific to one population to a larger audience, and how trolls respond: “How #Mooreandme Worked” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- “The Feminist Blog: A Retrospective” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
17th-Century Sexual Culture, Especially in Lowbrow Literature
- In Praise of the S(i)nonym: “The Golden Age of Dirty Talk” (The Awl)
- “The Seventeenth-Century Breastoration: A Time Before Bras” (The Hairpin)
- On the wayward adolescents of yore: “Party Like Its 1677” (The Hairpin)
- On virginity and coins: “The Punching-Office: Where 17th Century Ladies Go For Sex” (The Hairpin)
- On humiliating neighbors with handcrafted genitalia: “Dildo-Throwing and Other 17th-Century Pranks” (The Hairpin)
- On how to recover a lost maidenhead: “Restore Your Virginity the 17th Century Way” (The Hairpin)
- Hemorrhoids, etc.: “Seventeenth-Century Preparation H” (The Hairpin)
- Zits, etc. “How to React to a Blemish in the 17th Century” (The Hairpin)
Of Books and Movies:
- The Social Network: “On the Face That Launched A Thousand Clicks, or What The Social Network Isn’t About” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Bridesmaids: “Bridesmaids and The Ghost of Rom-Coms Past” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Cleaving: “On the Unacknowledged, Virtuosic Mess of Julie Powell’s Cleaving” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Star Trek: “Star Trek: I Love You, Man” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Book” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Logicomix: “Logicomix: Big on Myth, Short on Math” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
On Grieving:
- “Hallways and Eggs,” followed by ”Mother’s Day” one year later. (Millicent and Carla Fran)