As it happens, not much writing gets done. They go for walks, watch movies, gossip over dinner. Nina, the narrator, has recently escaped a toxic marriage. Filtered through her inner life, the story is also about making art, gender and sexual identity, self harm, and abuse.
Do You Want to Be Her or Do You Want to Fuck Her? - Electric Literature
The clip showed a troupe of 8- and 9-year-old Los Angeles girls in a national dance contest. But I doubt that two million people had tuned in simply to admire their arabesques. For about 48 hours it blazed across blogs and filled up in-boxes. And then, faster than you can say JonBenet Ramsey, it was gone. Outraged mommy bloggers calmed down. News outlets turned back to the BP oil spill and the Pennsylvania newlyweds who were born on the same day in the same hospital.
Why More Teen Girls Are Getting Genital Plastic Surgery
W hen Maya Bernstein, 18, first became sexually active in high school, she was nervous. How would she know what to do? Especially, it seems, how things should look. The numbers shot up so quickly that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ACOG issued new guidelines this month for doctors who perform labial and breast surgery.