Amanda Hess
@amandahess
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critic-at-large, @nytimes . second vice president, @nyguild . drawing of my head by @edithzimmerman . ~ “my son will be my strength” - christopher moltisanti ~
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Every time I learn a new fact about how US government agencies treat hungry babies and their parents I feel like tearing my hair out. (via
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For the onscreen moms in “The Baby,” “Umma” and “Lamb” — and for an ascendant class of sardonic mom influencers — the source of psychological torture is motherhood itself, our critic,
@amandahess
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I wrote about the many mothers of recent horror films, their relationship to the permanently bedraggled mom influencer persona, and the limits of framing motherhood as torture
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I wrote about BBL recovery houses, the cottage industry that has been booming in Miami, supported by the rapidly increasing popularity of the BBL, for The New York Times Magazine. Doctors I spoke to described Miami as ground zero of the BBL boom.
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new story 🍆 humbling to have so many sources put so much trust in me 🥲 terrifying to try and write about messy trans stuff for a national audience 🥵
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The Philip Guston retrospective postponed from 2020 due images evoking the Klan is finally opening. All's well that ends well? Or a foreboding sign?
@rpogrebin
and I explore
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“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.
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yes!!! 🩸✨
I've been obsessing over private equity — how it works and how it affects workers and communities — for a few years now, so I'm very excited to be writing a book about it!
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Unionion the union onion, mascot for the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, is at the Tokyo Rainbow Pride festival today.
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“As a young person and a woman, I’m expected to perform hope for people, without having the luxury of expressing my rage. But I feel like rage can be hopeful as well.” — Selina Fillinger, talking about her first Broadway play, "POTUS," with
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The playwright Selina Fillinger on “consciously failing the Bechdel test” in her new Broadway play, “POTUS”: “If you take the man out of the room, patriarchy still exists and we still play by its rules.”
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The
@nytimes
is pressuring us to return to the office in June. But RTO must be agreed on with
@NYTimesGuild
as part of our contract. I hope management comes to the table today ready to fairly negotiate on all the issues that matter to us, including wages, benefits and RTO!!!
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The
@nytimes
wants us all to return to the office. As someone who enjoys working from 620, I also know that this must be agreed on with
@NYTimesGuild
. I'm asking mgmt to negotiate in good faith on all the issues, including real-dollar wage increases.
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