Some Things I’ve Written

* XOXO: How a Once-Intimate Signoff is Feminizing the Workplace (The Atlantic)

* How to Solve the Gender Wage Gap? Speak Up. (New York Times)

* Sex Therapy Meets Puppetry. Inside the new LOGO reality series, Felt. (New York Times)

* I Leaned In and I Liked It: Why Sheryl Sandberg’s Circles Help (NY Mag)

* ‘D’ is for Divorce. Sesame Street takes on the taboo. (TIME)

* The Morgue is Alive. A trip inside the New York Times photo morgue, where history lives on. (WNYC/Tumblr)

* Meet the Directioners. Inside the crazy, crazy world of One Direction superfandom. (MTV/Tumblr)

* Breakfast With Kreayshawn: Pancakes & a Side of Girl Power (Tumblr)

* I write a lot about books. Mostly on feminism and sex. Here’s a profile of Sweet Valley High author Francine Pascal, and a piece about the 40th anniversary of Our Bodies, Ourselves. (The Daily Beast)

* I spent my final months at NEWSWEEK driving to and from Penn State, covering the Jerry Sandusky scandal. I wrote about the university’s Toxic Boys’ Club, the Wives of Sex Offenders, and Football As Religion. (Newsweek/Daily Beast)

* Are We There Yet? On the 40th anniversary of a landmark gender discrimination suit, the story of the women of NEWSWEEK—and a question of how much has changed. This story launched a blog and book. (Newsweek)

* Yes, I wrote a Modern Love column about my breakup. (New York Times)

* The Beauty Advantage. This feature, about the role of looks in the workplace, won first prize from the Newswomen’s Club of NY.(Newsweek)

* Forced to Cheer for Her Attacker. I went to rural Texas to tell the story of a high school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad when she refused to cheer for the student she said had raped her. (The Daily Beast)

* From Lockers to Lockup. In late 2010, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince hung herself after being bullied by her high school peers. But did her peers deserve to spend their lives in jail? A report. (Newsweek)

* Welcome to Potopia. For a piece about Prop. 19, the initiative to legalize pot in California, I spent time at the country’s only pot school. This series won first prize from the New York Press Club. (Newsweek)

* Only You. (And You. And You.) Polyamory has a coming out party, set in my hometown. (Newsweek)

* ‘I Don’t’: The Case Against Marriage (Newsweek)

* A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away. I won the 2010 Nellie Bly Award, from the New York Press Club, for this story, of a California family’s struggle to remove their daughter’s death photos from the web. (Newsweek)

* Generation Diva: How Our Obsession With Beauty is Changing Our Kids (Newsweek)

* Straight Into Compton. This feature, and video series, documented Compton’s struggle to rebrand itself. It took second prize from the NY Association of Black Journalists. (Newsweek)