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[Inside the Pink Pyramid] Virginia In OtherWords
I was very pleased to be asked to contribute an op-ed about the Mary Kay story to OtherWords, a project that distributes progressive commentary and cartoons to 250 newspapers around the country —...
View ArticleThose Posts I Meant to Write
Tori of Anytime Yoga (a fellow endo girl, awesome yoga teacher and all around kick-ass person if you’re into that) did this last week and I thought it was pretty genius: She cleared out the Drafts file...
View Article[Mission Statement] What’s Going On With This Blog
2013 marks my fourth year of blogging, and when I look back over how this blog (and this whole website, and my career and my whole life while we’re on the subject) has evolved during that time, it’s a...
View ArticleFarewell Google Reader, Hello Bloglovin’
Those of you who read this blog on the website or via email can ignore this quickie housekeeping post. But if you read this blog through Google Reader, this is just a head’s up to let you know that...
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Meet Virginia.
I write about the worlds of women. Much like the women’s magazines in which I’m predominantly published, sometimes these are overtly feminine places: Discount nail salons, Mary Kay parties, and beauty...
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[Reading List] The Drama Years
One of the best parts of my job is that I get sent a lot of amazing books. I also find out about a lot of amazing books that I don’t get sent and just buy myself. Which I’m happy …
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Do We Have Secret Fat Envy?
Rebecca DiLiberto (producer/executive editor of The Ricki Lake Show, which my inner ’90s child is randomly a bit excited about although I usually consider myself strictly an Ellen girl) has a post up...
View ArticleThose Posts I Meant to Write
Tori of Anytime Yoga (a fellow endo girl, awesome yoga teacher and all around kick-ass person if you’re into that) did this last week and I thought it was pretty genius: She cleared out the Drafts file...
View Article[Mission Statement] What’s Going On With This Blog
2013 marks my fourth year of blogging, and when I look back over how this blog (and this whole website, and my career and my whole life while we’re on the subject) has evolved during that time, it’s a...
View ArticleFarewell Google Reader, Hello Bloglovin’
Those of you who read this blog on the website or via email can ignore this quickie housekeeping post.But if you read this blog through Google Reader, this is just a head’s up to let you know that since …
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Meet Virginia.
My work has appeared in more than 50 national magazines, websites, and newspapers including Elle, Slate, Harper’s and the New York Times Magazine. At the moment, I’m writing a book (called THE EATING...
View ArticleCome Work With Me! (Part-Time Writer’s Assistant Needed)
UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED. (Thanks so much to everyone who applied!) I’m hiring again! I last posted this job in 2014 and have been lucky enough to have the same great person with me for...
View Article[On Eating and Reading]
There are some excellent food reads out there right now, so a round-up post seemed in order.The Carnivore Diet is the Latest Fad to Ignore that Food Does More Than Just Feed Us. Oh man, everything...
View ArticleWhy It’s Not Sugar Addiction
As I’ve been traveling around for the past month, talking about The Eating Instinct with different audiences, one question keeps coming up: But what about sugar?I’m encouraged by how many people get...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Books I Read in 2018
It may not surprise you to know that I don’t set diet-related New Year’s Resolutions. But I do weirdly love the idea of resolutions and just generally, setting goals to stretch yourself as a person...
View ArticleMeet the Thin White Men of Diet Culture (Bitch Media)
It’s easy to blame our current fat phobia on the Kardashians shilling for Fit Tea, or Gwyneth Paltrow with her recipes for Ayurvedic golden milk and spirulina-infused smoothies. After all, these women...
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