Exquisitely written by poet Camille Rainville and narrated by Cynthia Nixon, this two-and-a-half-minute video from Girls Girls Girls perfectly encapsulates what it means to be a woman in 2020. If you haven’t yet watched it, trust us, you should
The language we use in offices can be insidious (“Let’s take this offline. What’s the business-critical ask? Can you summarise the takeaways?”) and writer Molly Young has hit the nail on the head as she explores the spread of corporate-speak in this piece for Vulture. And yes, we definitely cringed in shame as we recognised our own contribution to this…
This photo gallery of female journalists covering the Weinstein trial is the content we all need this week
Yessssss: A film series of Sally Rooney’s first novel Conversation with Friends has officially been commissioned by the BBC (a 12-part series of her second novel Normal People is due to be released this April)
This interview with Salt Fat Acid Heat author and cook Samin Nosrat about failure, depression, fame and attempting veganism is exquisitely raw and honest (“I sometimes feel embarrassed about my success, but I’ve decided to be done feeling that way. My friend told me, “I can see how hard it is for you, because you spent your whole life being practically invisible, and now you’ve gone all the way to the other extreme.” It took me a while to interpret that, but it’s true. I grew up a brown kid in a super-white world. I was called a “terrorist” in second grade.”)
Five un-romantic ‘how we met’ stories, featuring car accidents, Twilight conventions, dick pics and bad Grindr dates
This 62-year-old guy planked for eight (!!!) hours straight and you better believe he has some tips for us all
A startlingly honest piece about being single by the French writer Garance Doré (“Being single means admitting there aren’t many couples out there who make you want to be in one. And the ones who do, don’t have any advice for you. It means asking yourself some seriously existential questions about what you really want, whether the old model of the nuclear family really fits you, or if you just want to be as free as the air, ultimately”)
Around 20% of women who freeze their eggs aren’t sure if they want children – this is a story about one of them
A decadently creamy pasta made with absolutely zero cream (the secret is adding white beans until they release all that starchy goodness)
Ever find yourself tuning out the people you live or work with? Apparently we have a tendency to stop listening to the people we feel close to because we think we already know what they’re going to say. Ouch.
On Twitter this week, people started sharing their most surreal celeb encounters and there are some real doozies in the comments
Elsewhere on Twitter, the comedian James Felton asked people what normal thing they do at home that would get them weird glares in public… and honestly, you cannot make this shit up
Book rec of the week: Vanessa bought She Said (by the New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who broke the Weinstein case) on Sunday and devoured it in two nights. If you love stories about journalism, newsrooms, hardcore investigations, powerful men being bought down by women, dumb crooks, US politics and juicy behind-the-scenes action, this is the book for you
