Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
By Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Life The Problem Is ‘Wellness,’ Not Gwyneth Paltrow’s Privilege-Awareness, Part II
So Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a silly-sounding, outrageously-priced, somewhat disorganized-sounding health event. So what?, you might ask. The stakes are the highly profitable wellness industry, of which this event was a high-profile part. Most obviously, where there is “wellness,” all too often, there is pseudoscience. In the New York Post, Maureen Callahan describes what happened when…
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Life Gwyneth Paltrow’s Wellness Expo: Oblivious By Intent, Part I
Of the “hundreds” who attended In Goop Health, a day-long Los Angeles event, there were – as Becky Scott points out – a not-insignificant number of lifestyle reporters. So much has been written about the event that it can feel like the attendees were all there to cover the event, until you take into account…
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Life Some LGBT Jews Support Israel. Their Existence Isn’t ‘Pinkwashing.’
At Bustle, Hannah Simpson writes about her experiences as a Jewish Queer Youth marcher at New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade. Simpson, who is transgender, describes what happened when, as she puts it, “Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ambushed and blocked our members under the guise of civil disobedience and protest.” Simpson explains that when JVP…
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Life The Secret Jewish History Of ‘Absolutely Fabulous’
Before “Broad City,” before “Sex And The City,” a debauched, joyous, complicated, and above all hilarious female friendship made it onscreen. I more or less grew up with “Absolutely Fabulous,” identifying generationally with staid daughter Saffy, but on a deeper level with mom (and protagonist) Edina. Edina Monsoon (played by creator and writer Jennifer Saunders)…
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Life Teen Girls Are Having A Moment. Is That Good For Them? For Feminism?
For a while now, there’s been a spate of think-pieces about the underestimated teenage girl. This came up when Teen Vogue became a strong (albeit adult-run) voice of opposition to the Trump administration. The teen girl (or, as with the Fearless Girl statue or Chelsea Clinton’s new children’s book, the young girl) has become a…
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Life NASA Shirt Sexism: A Social Media Controversy, Deconstructed
It started like this: Arizona State University professor named Katie Hinde tweeted the following: “Did I just take a bunch of NASA tank tops from the boys section & put them in the girls section? Yes. Yes I did.” She included photographic evidence of the same, at what was probably a Target. The idea being,…
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Life Ivanka, Can You Really Be ‘Blindsided’ By Fightback Against Trump?
As has probably been clear for some time now, I make no claims of being able to know what’s going on in Ivanka Trump’s mind. (Or anyone’s, for that matter, but this is an Ivanka post.) So I ask the following questions, knowing, full well, their unanswerability: Did she actually think, at any point along…
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Life Why Bipartisan Ivanka Fandom Isn’t Imminent
By the time images captioned captioned “Why I disagree with my dad,” I had a sense a meme was under way, but that I’d missed the reference. As I learned moments later, the inspiration was US Weekly’s new Ivanka Trump cover story, whose headline is, sure enough, “Why I Disagree With My Dad.” A teaser…
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