Columns
| Focus Group Archives
When Fresh Food Is a Luxury, Beauty Becomes a Necessity
In the midwest food desert I grew up in, there are higher standards for what we wear than what we eat.
Columns
| Health
| Focus Group Archives
In America, There’s No Such Thing as Pure Water
If anyone knows how to create a narrative in response to ecological misfortune, it’s the bottled-water industry.
Columns
| Focus Group Archives
How to Hide Your Grief in a French Roll
All that mattered, we told ourselves, was what we saw when we looked in the mirror, what we saw when we looked at each other.
Columns
| Focus Group Archives
I Traded My Image for Money, Now I Want It Back
The largest archive of footage of myself, ages twenty-three to thirty-years-old, never belonged to me but is owned by brands.
Columns
| Focus Group Archives
What Does It Take to Be a Woman Who Has It All?
When we look at women who work, what remains unseen and what is expected to remain hidden?
Columns
| Focus Group Archives
How Years of Running Beauty Focus Groups Nearly Destroyed Me
I am the only one in the room who is neither asked nor allowed to answer: “How does that make you feel?”
Arts & Culture
| Art
Why Bathing Is More Than Self-Care—It’s Art
To be female and to bathe is to always be prepared for onlookers.