“I spoke to Jasper Wang of Defector about how it’s building a worker-owned media company that’s a good example of an alternative path for media companies in the more-with-less era. Before that I have an essay on the emergent information space.”— BRIAN MORRISSEY, therebooting.com
“She’s really interested in queer voices, she’s really interested in feminist voices, she’s really interested in voices on body size, all kinds of different conversations that are really exciting right now, and I think are the future.”— Amy Hundley, nytimes.com
“Pre-internet, such people would have been confined to relaying their theories on the phone and in the mail. But thanks to the internet, it’s simple to develop a following.”— Paul Mulshine, nj.com
“What is beautiful about her body does not belong to her, but to god. But what is ugly is hers alone, proof of her sin, worthy of any abuse.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Why do women care so much what the magazines say and show? They care because, though magazines are trivialized, they represent something very important: women's mass culture”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“There were significant strides taken in 2020. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the road in front of us remains long.”— Mekita Rivas, fashionista.com
“I think it says more about our country and our health care system that more and more health care workers are having to turn to OnlyFans or other means of sex work or other means of getting extra cash, the fact that they’re not getting what they need to make ends meet from the job that they’re dedica…”— Lauren Kwei, rollingstone.com
“Hollywood is teaching people that the way you react when you see a transgender person's body is to vomit.”— Nick Adams, imdb.com
“It increasingly feels like a matter of when, and not if, you will suffer layoffs in this industry. It's a spectral hand just at the back of your neck every single day. And it doesn't matter how hard you work or how talented you are.”— Tyler McCall, twitter.com
“We have been through enough revolutions to know that every medium of communication is a unique art form which gives salience to one set of human possibilities at the expense of another set.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?”— Carla Murphy, dissentmagazine.org
“My former friend actually sucks, and here are some personal details about her addiction and suicidality is not a good premise for a story.”— Tiana Lowe, washingtonexaminer.com
“Congratulations, you thrillingly, thrillingly adept journalist, you have discovered that Lauren Duca is not perfect. Put it in the headline, baby.”— Lauren Duca, buzzfeednews.com
“I spent $1,279 of The Atlantic’s money on creams, crystals, and a vibrator from Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire. Things got weird.”— Amanda Mull, theatlantic.com
“The problem with books and videos is that you can’t do anything else while you’re doing them, right? When you’re reading, you’re reading. When you’re watching a video, you can be distracted, but you have to pay attention to the video. But, if you’re listening to a podcast, you can be driving a forkl…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“Even if you have a very successful career, you’re always like, but what if it all goes away?”— Elaine Welteroth, thecut.com