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Sarah Seltzer

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My novel, The Singer Sisters is on sale everywhere! I love flowers, children, peace, happiness, and reproductive freedom! Trolls, get bent!

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Deputy editor at Flavorwire (formerly Editor-at-Large), writer of fiction, reviews, essays, journalism. My freelance work has been seen in Jezebel, Refinery29, WIRED, the NYTimes Artsbeat, Vulture, The Normal School, Lilith, Joyland, LA Review of Books, Salon, The Hairpin, The Toast, XoJane, WSJ Speakeasy, NYT Room for Debate, Volume 1 Brooklyn, Ms Magazine, TheNation.com, Rollingstone.com, The Rumpus, AlterNet, The Forward, Publishers Weekly and more...
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I Read And Love Both Bridget Jones's Diary And Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- So What?

I Read And Love Both Bridget Jones's Diary And Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- So What?

The legend of my unlikely love for "Twilight" is canon for those who know me: I found out about the series fr…

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The Abortion Rights Dystopia Brought On by the Zika Crisis

The Abortion Rights Dystopia Brought On by the Zika Crisis

Like most of the pregnant population in the Western Hemisphere, I've spent the past weeks unusually engrossed…

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We Are Being Set Up To Fail - & It Should Make You Mad As Hell

We Are Being Set Up To Fail - & It Should Make You Mad As Hell

"Impostor syndrome" is the internet's favorite term for the internal struggles of ambitious people, particula…

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'Poldark' Season 1 Finale Recap: Faith vs. Perfidy

'Poldark' Season 1 Finale Recap: Faith vs. Perfidy

Season 1, Episode 7 I hope you had handkerchiefs on hand. Cut down from two episodes that aired in Britain, t…

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Jane Austen meets mansplaining: This is the perfect satire of the anti-feminism movement

Jane Austen meets mansplaining: This is the perfect satire of the anti-feminism movement

The inside story of a new Web comic that captions "Pride and Prejudice" scenes with misogynistic Internet com…

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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bunk But I Don't Care

The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bunk But I Don't Care

My husband likes to observe every now and then that astrology is rubbish. I always answer, "That is such a Sc…

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The Facts Are Bad Enough

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By Sarah Seltzer Verified
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Whenever I get overwhelmed by headlines and posts about the Jeffrey Epstein case, especially if they involve ideas about secret conspiracies, mind control, or nefarious pizza parlors, I check in to see what feminist journalist Lindsay Beyerstein has shared on her Bluesky account—where she consistently debunks rumors and regrounds her readers in the facts of the case.
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Centering Survivors Starts With Us

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By Sarah Seltzer Verified
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If I showed you the agenda items for our women*’s learning community staff meetings since January, you would laugh. Or cry. Iran. Romi Gonen. Purim. Minneapolis. Iran. Arbel Yehud. Michigan. War. London. War. Pesach. The Omer. Yom Hashoah. Iran. We meet weekly, and we always add to the agenda: “What is our community holding right now?” It’s been a lot. Overwhelming even. And yet, every single week, there has been a singular bullet point on our meeting agenda that has not moved: Epstein.
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Lilith in “Lilith”

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From this magazine’s very first issue 50 years ago, when “The Lilith Question” by Aviva Cantor noted that “The Lilith story may be a clue to our own history, ” one that honors “rebellious behavior of women in the past, ” Lilith Magazine, and our readers, have loved talking about Lilith, the figure. Back in 1998, the age of female-fronted rock festival Lilith Fair, Sarah Blustain noted that reclaiming Lilith was suddenly on trend. “Seducer of men? Killer of babies?
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