Chanel Dubofsky
By Chanel Dubofsky
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Life On Becoming Comfortable in the Kitchen
Recently, I had dinner with K, a friend from college. We sat in her spacious one-bedroom apartment, where she lives alone, and we drank wine and ate steak, and talked about when we were 20-years-old, living in a tiny apartment in Amherst, Mass., thinking about whether or not we could afford to include fresh broccoli…
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Life Realizing That It’s Not My New Year
Until I was a teenager, I had little interest in large social gatherings featuring other people, with one exception — the all-night New Year’s Eve skating party in town. This happened every year at the local rink, and I was never allowed to go. In the revisionist history in my head, everyone I knew was…
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Life Why Women Are Worse at Networking
The second time I see H. is on a Sunday morning at the bus stop near my apartment. It’s the kind of rainy day in New York that makes you feel hopeless; the rain comes at you sideways, umbrellas blow inside out, and by the time you reach anywhere, you are sopping and angry and…
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Life Attention Gen Y: What the F-Word Is and Isn’t
I was voted Class Feminist during my senior year of high school. I still have the award, a certificate adorned with awesome late 90s computer graphics, tucked into the back of my senior yearbook. (There was also an award for Class Chauvinist, bestowed upon on a football player, who laughed proudly and boisterously on his…
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Life Homophobia: An Insidious Outgrowth of Misogyny
Let’s be honest: It’s not like I was going to vote for Carl Paladino in the first place. If there were some kind of reverse political dictionary, and I was in it, Carl Paladino would be listed as my particularly aggressive antonym. That was before he decided to publicly demonstrate his homophobia, while bringing the…
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Life Why I Hate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Dear Breast Cancer: I am aware. It’s not because of the extremely effective marketing, with the pink ribbon campaigns. It’s because I lived in your house, and you lived in mine. It seems that my mother’s breast cancer was just bad luck, and not genetic. Even if my mother didn’t have one of the genetic…
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Life Mourning My Mother — on Yom Kippur and Throughout the Year
Sitting around the table — four young women, all of us had lost one of our parents — we told the stories that we always tell or never tell: when we knew it was inevitable (cancer was the cause of death in every situation), where we were when we had to drop everything and come…
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Life Women’s Suffrage at 90
I almost never answer the door unless I’m expecting someone or something. I live in New York, and you can’t be too careful. But the other day, uncharacteristically, I did answer it. When I opened the door, there was a young woman who asked if I’m voting on September 14, and then handed me a…
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