Emma Gray
Senior Women’s Reporter @HuffPost | Co-Host #HereToMakeFriends | A GIRL'S GUIDE TO JOINING THE RESISTANCE (@WmMorrowBooks, 2018) | tips: [email protected]
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Episode #682 - Gender Reveal Parties KILL! | Savage Lovecast
Gender Reveal Parties KILL! Dan Savage, America's only advice columnist, answers your sex questions on the Internets. To record a question for Dan to be answered in a later podcast, call 206-302-2064.
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Emma Gray
Loved chatting with @fakedansavage about gender reveal parties on today's #SavageLovecast!
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When Gender Reveals Kill
The decade-old ritual is the perfect party for our mind-melting, social-media-loving, anxious-about-gender moment.
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Emma Gray
Welcome to my magnum opus on gender reveal parties and how they were born of a perfect storm of gender anxiety, capitalism and Instagram
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Woman Says Andrew Yang Fired Her For Being Married
The 2020 presidential candidate allegedly told Kimberly Watkins she "wouldn't want to continue working as hard."
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Emma Gray
Kimberly Watkins, a former employee of Manhattan Prep, says that Andrew Yang fired her in 2007, telling her that "because I was married, I wouldn’t want to continue working as hard as I had been. That as a wife, I’d be focused on my new life.”
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Why We Need To Talk About Men
Liz Plank's "For the Love of Men" makes the case for a compassionate and urgent dialogue about, between and for the benefit of men.
The Joy Of Watching The U.S. Women's Soccer Team Luxuriate In Victory
No qualifiers. No apologies. They know they're the best and it's deeply satisfying to witness.
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Emma Gray
Wrote about how fucking exhilarating it was to watch the #USWNT unapologetically revel in their successes
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Why Studying Gun Violence Matters
Why do so many Americans kill one another, and how can the violence be stopped? The C.D.C. quit studying these and other questions over 20 years ago.
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Emma Gray
Glad to hear Warren reference how insane it is that mass gun violence isn't even being *studied* #DemDebate
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A Running List Of The Women Who've Accused Donald Trump Of Sexual Misconduct
All their stories in one place.
Access To Abortion Changes Cis Men's Lives Too
Yes, anti-abortion legislation impacts women, nonbinary people and trans men first and foremost. But safe and legal abortion care can also change the cou...
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Emma Gray
Abortion is something that impacts people with uteruses first and foremost. But the cis men I spoke to were very thoughtful about the ways that accessible and safe abortion care had radically altered their lives.
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Smash the Wellness Industry
Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims?
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Emma Gray
"This was before I could recognize wellness culture for what it was — a dangerous con... At its core, 'wellness' is about weight loss. It demonizes calorically dense and delicious foods, preserving a vicious fallacy: Thin is healthy and healthy is thin."
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Here's What It's Like To Be A Teenage Girl In Alabama Right Now
High school junior Jocelyn Wright was horrified by her state's new anti-abortion law. She can't vote, so she started a petition to push back.
When Men Step Up ― And Back ― To Support Women's Ambitions
Behind many great women is a male partner willing to take the backseat. (We're lookin' at you, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.)
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.
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Emma Gray
This is something I've talked about with girl friends for years. Glad to see it articulated so well.
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Prominent Activists Launch Supermajority To Mobilize Women For 2020 And Beyond
Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo and Alicia Garza are creating an intersectional political organization dedicated to building tangible power for American women.
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Emma Gray
Welcome to the world, @supermajority! Loved chatting with @aijenpoo, @CecileRichards and @aliciagarza about their new political org, which will provide a "home for activism" -- and a path toward a New Deal for Women.
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There's A Name For Joe Biden's Behavior Toward Women
The former VP may have good intentions in his interactions with women, but that doesn't excuse potentially harmful behavior. Benevolent sexism can help u...
Amber Tamblyn Is Done Asking Powerful Men For Permission
The actress' new book, "Era of Ignition," explores her journey from professional object to activist subject -- and asks us all to do better.
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Emma Gray
It's always a delight to chat with @ambertamblyn, especially when she is in the back of a taxi inadvertently giving her male driver a crash course in intersectional feminism.
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Mark Meadows and the Victim Card
Accused of a racist act, the congressman threw a fit.
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Emma Gray
"It appears that to [Rep. Meadows], accusations of racism are more dangerous than racist acts themselves." THIS! Essential reading from @kashanacauley
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She’s Not ‘The One’: The Antidote To Sexism In The Race Toward The Presidency
Being the only woman running for POTUS hurt Hillary Clinton. But now that there’s not just one, will the female candidates be free to just be … candidates?
Get In, Millennials, We're Going To Congress
An endlessly mocked generation is growing up to become the power brokers and thought leaders a wider culture told us we were too lazy and entitled to be.
Trumpism Is Racism, So Things Will Get Worse
After the 2018 midterms, is Trumpism still a sustainable strategy for the GOP?
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Emma Gray
"As @sandylocks says, 'Trumpism is no longer a dog whistle. It is a bullhorn.' We cannot afford to plug our ears."
Essential (and scary) midterms analysis from @JamilSmith
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White Women, Come Get Your People. (But Who Are Your People?)
A political science professor gives historical context to the ways that white women voters are (and more importantly, aren't) tied to each other.