Cat Zhang
Culture Writer at The Cut
Culture Writer at New York Magazine
culture @thecut/@nymag, former @pitchfork
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2 days ago |
thecut.com | Cat Zhang
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images On my second day living in New York, a cyclist called me a stupid bitch. What happened was my mom, a step-count maniac and shopping addict, had forced an Apple Watch upon me as a postgrad “gift.” She insisted that it was necessary for a professional woman to have. Why? I already owned a phone.
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1 week ago |
thecut.com | Cat Zhang
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images For those too young for Facebook Events, too unhinged for Paperless Post, and too self-serious for email or text, there’s Partiful: the app that blows up your phone with reminders about the imminent arrival of your co-worker’s friend’s spring picnic.
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1 week ago |
thecut.com | Cat Zhang
Photo: Joe Maher/Getty Images Last week, days after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that trans women will not be considered women under the law, Pedro Pascal arrived at a Marvel movie premiere wearing a white tee that read in all-caps: “PROTECT THE DOLLS.” (“Doll,” which has its roots in ’80s ballroom culture, is a term of endearment for trans women, though not all trans women embrace it.) The T-shirt was created in February by 28-year-old American designer Conner Ives, who’d spontaneously made...
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3 weeks ago |
thecut.com | Cat Zhang
Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images After recently vowing to root out the “cause” of autism by September, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is apparently launching a disease registry to monitor Americans with autism.
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3 weeks ago |
thecut.com | Cat Zhang
Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO Nathan Fielder will go to extraordinarily elaborate and roundabout lengths to solve a problem. In his HBO docu-comedy The Rehearsal, he coaches clients through tricky scenarios by engineering the exact context in which they’re likely to happen, first hiring actors, erecting full-scale replicas of places like bars and apartments, then walking the clients through every possible outcome — budget be damned. Need to confess a lie to your trivia teammate?
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