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)

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