Some people achieve their dreams and other people ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS. (And then there are those who live lives of quiet desperation but this isn’t about you right now). RuPaul, the host and creator of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, falls solidly into the second category. The actor/model/author/television personality/personal role model to all is the most internationally…
At least one expert says the hysterectomy Lena Dunham opted to get for her endometriosis was highly unusual.This opinion was issued in response to the touching essay Dunham wrote this week about seeking out a hysterectomy for her endometriosis. The Cut spoke to Dr. Kathy Huang, the director of the Endometriosis Center at NYU Langone…
We are mean to Lena Dunham here at the Schmooze. She is an easy target — young, white, wealthy, successful, talented, friends with Taylor Swift, from a well-connected family, and prone to the public displays of ignorance that epitomize well-intentioned white people. But ultimately, she is a human being. She experiences pain and loss the…
Lena Dunham has been keeping a low profile lately, after her most recent scandal involved apologizing for defending a male friend accused of sexual assault. Her absence has given those of us who are white, female, liberal arts school educated, and residents of Brooklyn a little room to make a voice for ourselves. But, like…
Here at the Schmooze, we’re not afraid to get extremely real. Commercial Israeli chocolate is disgusting. Howard Stern is a national disgrace. The premise that Jews are uniquely bad at sports is baseless. (All these are stories we’ve received hate mail for writing about.) But I put off writing about actress and “Girls” creator Lena…
Feminist allies of Hillary Clinton’s warned her before the 2016 election about movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women, troubled by his high profile at her side during the campaign, according to the New York Times. Both Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series Girls and a loud voice on a range of women’s issues…
Author Zinzi Clemmons announced Sunday that she would no longer be contributing to Lena Dunham’s newsletter “Lenny Letter” in response to the growing controversy over Dunham’s defense of a “Girls” writer accused of rape. Actress Aurora Perrineau filed a police report last week alleging that Murray Miller had sexually assaulted her in 2012, when she…
November 8th, 2016 is a day that every conscious adult will remember for the rest of their life. They will remember where they were when they received the news, with whom, and how it made them feel. For most Democrats (and many Republicans), that memory will replay as a slow-motion car crash over a cliff…
