Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Has A Feminist Celebrity Coven With Reese Witherspoon
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally intimidated by Natalie Portman. via GIPHY It’s hard to talk about the way female celebrities’ appearances affect their young fans without either blaming a woman for the work of a larger system or blaming the larger system, and snatching away the woman’s very agency. But, come on,…
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The Schmooze Jill Soloway Of ‘Transparent’ Wants To ‘Reclaim’ The Word Zionism
You can love Israel and want it to exist without loving Israel’s current government or every aspect of Israeli society. That’s the radical (or not) message Jill Soloway, creator of the watershed Jewish family drama “Transparent,” is spreading. Soloway, the auteur behind the four seasons of Amazon Prime’s “Transparent” and the network’s short-lived “I Love…
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Life Ady Barkan Will Die For Your Sins: Meet The Man Giving His Last Breath To Democracy
You’re dying, but Ady Barkan, 34, is dying faster. Maybe there are abnormal cells in your skin; maybe there’s plaque in your interior arteries; maybe you’ll be hit by a car. Ady Barkan’s death is less of a mystery. His motor neurons are dying, melting his muscles and gradually rendering his body uninhabitable. As he…
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The Schmooze Rapper Ice-T Has Never Eaten A Bagel, Thank You, And Has No Intention Of Doing So
Rapper Ice-T is tired of fighting. He’s tired of hiding. He is who he is: A 60-year-old man who has never eaten a bagel and never intends to eat one. He said as much on social media today, sending Bagel Twitter into a fit: White people.. Don’t lose your Fn minds because I’ve never eaten…
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The Schmooze Did Bernie Sanders Say Something Very Confusing About The Elections?
Update: Sanders tweeted to clarify his comments on Thursday afternoon. Here’s the Daily Beast tweet, including Sanders’ most controversial quote: “I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to…
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The Schmooze A Prayer For Hospitalized Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized after an injury, The New York Times reported on Thursday morning. Justice Ginsburg fell in her office on Wednesday night, the paper reports, but was brought to George Washington University Hospital on Thursday morning where she was admitted, having broken three ribs on her left side….
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The Schmooze Alyssa Milano Won’t Speak At Next Women’s March Till Leaders Denounce Anti-Semitism
Alyssa Milano won’t speak at the next Women’s March if leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour continue to support Louis Farrakhan, she told Advocate. Milano, an actress who has become one of the most public faces of the #MeToo movement, censured those Women’s March leaders for their continued refusal to publicly distance themselves from Farrakhan,…
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The Schmooze ‘I Don’t Have A Penis’ Jewish Lesbian Wins In Michigan
Dana Nessel, the Jewish lesbian lawyer whose underdog campaign for Michigan Attorney General got its first boost with a penis joke, won the job on election night by a small margin in a state that went red in 2016. “Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? Is…
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