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Ladyparts, the Substack publication
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I’m a Writer on Emily in Paris: I May Destroy You Deserved a Golden Globe Nomination The Guardian
Did COVID-19 Mess Up My Heart? The Atlantic
On Top of Everything Else, My Dog Died The Atlantic
How Are Parents Supposed to Deal With Joint Custody Right Now? The Atlantic
My Whole Household Has COVID-19 The Atlantic
The Glorious Messy Life Of Liz Wurtzel The Atlantic
What Menopause Does to Women’s Brains The Atlantic
My Rapist Apologized The Atlantic
Three Children, Two Abortions The Atlantic
How To Lose Your Job From Sexual Harassment in 33 Easy Steps The Atlantic
The DIY Divorce The Atlantic
I Spent $925 on a Fake Canada Goose Coat The Atlantic
Finding a Way Through an Unspeakable Loss The Atlantic
What I Learned About Life at my 30th College Reunion The Atlantic
What Sea Lice Taught Me About Life The Atlantic
Stage Motherhood The New Yorker
A Life-Altering Sock Drawer The New Yorker
My So-Called Post-Feminist Life in Arts and Letters The Nation
Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy The Nation
Exploring the Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s Medium
How One Woman Found Healing in the Himalayas Oprah.com
The Key to Surviving Change Is Accepting That It's Inevitable Oprah.com
Modern Love: When Cupid is A Prying Journalist New York Times
Modern Love: La Vie en Rose, the Takeout Version New York Times
Sunday Book Review Essay: Only Yesterday New York Times
Her Roman Holiday New York Times
Lives: King of the Mountain New York Times Magazine
Op-Ed: My Marriage Was Over. Why Couldn’t I Get My Old Name Back Washington Post
Book Review: ‘Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession,’ by Lisa A. Phillips The Washington Post
How I Got Rejected from a Job at the Container Store Forbes
Darren Star Channels His Seductive Shows for This Hamptons Hideaway Galerie Magazine
The Cure for a Broken Heart? Naked Yoga The Observer
All the Young Dudes The Observer
People Suck—and They Don't The Observer
Warrior Women: When Life Turns Upside Down, There’s Safety—And Strength—In Numbers The Observer
Revisiting Hemingway, Paris, A Son and His Traumatized Roommates in the Wake of ISIS The Observer
Principal of Despair: A School Testing Scandal and a Suicide The Observer
Uncharted Territory: A Mother of Three Navigates the World of the Newly Single The Observer
The Best Part of Middle Age: Letting Go of Shame The Observer
Looking for Love, Ending Up in a War Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed: To Sanitize Photos is to Distort History Reuters
Adulthood in the U.S. Has Nothing to Do with Age Anymore Quartz
How Facebook Saved My Son's Life Slate
The Night After the Serial Rapist Was Caught Slate
The Plumber, The Lawyer and the Carpenter The Forward
Costa Rica Treehouse Adventure Travel & Leisure
Product Testing for Real People (all columns) Financial Times
I Went in For A Lumpectomy and Came Out A Lottery Winner EDH
Their Father's Daughters Tue/Night
New York City, Emptied by Virus Medium
The Family Doctor and the Plague Medium
Ladyparts: A Story of Near Death Medium
I Was Suspended from Facebook for my #MeToo Post Medium
Selling My Engagement Ring: A Love Story Medium
How To Write an Anti-Feminist Profile in Six Easy Steps Medium
How'd You Get That Shot? Medium
If you're looking to update your website or simply need corporate headshots that go beyond the floating-head-on-white-seamless, please feel free to get in touch. We can shoot an entire office of 20 employees in one day or 40 in two days, etc.
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Rates: $850 flat fee (plus travel expenses, if I come to you — parking plus $100 extra in roundtrip travel time, if you are local) for the shoot itself, for an online gallery of images, and for one retouched headshot. Each additional retouched portrait will cost an additional $75 per image.
Work in progress
Some photos from my college thesis, "Shooting Back," winner of a Hoopes Prize and nominated for a W. Eugene Smith Fund award in 1988. The thesis was spurred by having endured a number of assaults while a college student, everything from being kicked unconscious in the middle of Harvard Square while walking home from the library to fending off an attempted sexual assault by a stranger in my dorm room to armed robbery, twice, and more. The idea was simple: I'd go out into the streets of Boston, Philadelphia and New York where women were considered the most vulnerable back in the mid-80's: The Combat Zone, South Philly, and Times Square. There, whenever a man would accost me with a, "Hey, baby, wanna get it on?" I'd answer, "No, thank you, but I would like to shoot your photo." I used one lens and one lens only: a 28 millimeter Nikon lens, meaning many of these portraits had to be shot with the camera held inches from the subject's face.