Hannah Jocelyn

New York

Freelance Writer and Editor, Singles Jukebox at Freelance

Articles

The 100 Greatest LGBTQ+ Anthems of All Time

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Joe Lynch |Stephen Daw |Hannah Dailey |Glenn Rowley |Hannah Jocelyn |Lucas Villa

Generate Key TakeawaysHow does a song become a gay anthem? Like the LGBTQ+ community itself, our soundtrack is vast and diverse. We have recorded our history and contribution to the culture through music, and with this list we acknowledge and remember the forerunners that have made possible the positive changes we’ve seen over the decades. These songs are a testimony to our resilience and excellence.
Michael Pollan on What Happens When Priests Get High

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Jocelyn

Is God a woman? A conversation about the religious professionals who, after tripping on mushrooms, became evangelists for psychedelics.
Motherhood in the Age of Reproductive Surveillance

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Jocelyn

Biohacking has come for pregnancy. Parents with money may now be able to use testing to optimize their child—before the baby is even born. In today’s newsletter, Jessica Winter reviews a new memoir about the challenges of childbearing in today’s technological and political climate. Plus:In this post-Dobbs, pro-natalist, techno-dystopia, pregnancy has become a thorny topic and an even thornier experience. When the writer Amanda Hess was pregnant, her son was given an unsettling diagnosis.
Daughter of Swords: Alex

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Hannah Jocelyn

“I feel strange,” Alex Sauser-Monnig sings on their new record, Alex, “but it’s just a natural reaction to a world coming apart at the seams.” In the six years since Dawnbraker, their debut as Daughter of Swords, the world’s only come more unglued; Alex is a frenetic coming-out party before the clock strikes midnight. Musically, the album recalls a decade-old strain of perky, chart-aspiring indie pop, the purview of bands like MisterWives or Oh Wonder—only these songs have far more on their mind.
How Mexico’s President Manages Trump

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Hannah Jocelyn

“It’s always important to keep a cool head.” In today’s newsletter, we have a deep dive on Mexico’s first female President, a former activist and academic who has—so far—skillfully maneuvered the belligerent new Administration to the north. Plus:• The immigrant families removed from stable lives and jailed in Texas• How New York saved itself from bankruptcyClaudia Sheinbaum has been hailed among her constituents as “la nueva dama de hierro”—the new iron lady.
Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Hannah Jocelyn

Sarah Mary Chadwick’s music is often a difficult listen, but that’s the whole point. Throughout her career she’s dealt with heavy subjects, including the death of her father and her own suicide attempts, delivering every line with blunt honesty. It’s a style consistent with other modern-day eccentrics like Joanna Sternberg and St. Lenox, artists who update and refine the so-called outsider singer-songwriter music of Daniel Johnston.
How Divorce Makes the Private Political

Mar 26, 2025 | newyorker.com | Hannah Jocelyn

In today’s newsletter, Molly Fischer on how divorce, in itself, can change a person. Plus:The dissatisfactions of heterosexual marriages have been the focus of many recent memoirs by women chronicling the dissolution of their relationships. On the whole, these books “present divorce as liberation and marriage as oppressive,” Molly Fischer writes in this week’s issue. “No Fault,” by the Canadian writer Haley Mlotek, stands out for its measured, equivocal tone.
How Divorce Makes the Private Political

Mar 26, 2025 | flipboard.com | Hannah Jocelyn

4 hours agoSteven Sizemore, a psychotherapist in the Houston area, recommends reframing conflicts as a shared challenge, rather than a battle between two opposing sides. Doing so “fosters collaboration, reduces blame, and helps couples shift toward problem-solving together,” he says. Using “we” language …
What Happens When Elvis Goes Missing

Mar 14, 2025 | newyorker.com | Hannah Jocelyn

In today’s newsletter, what the case of Mahmoud Khalil tells us about the Administration’s attitude toward free speech. But, first, inside the mystery of a stolen Elvis bust. • The mind-set that spawned the Irish famineThe bust of Elvis—in his Vegas garb, paint cracking, adorned with old Mardi Gras beads—had been sitting at the Great Jones Café, in the East Village, since a server, known as the Rudest Waitress in New York City, brought it to work with her in the mid-eighties.
Miya Folick : Erotica Veronica

Mar 3, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Hannah Jocelyn

As a certain IKEA couch will tell you, it’s notoriously complicated for queer people in heteronormative relationships to express their identity. If you’re Miya Folick, you dedicate your third album, Erotica Veronica, to navigating that very neurosis. While dating a cis man, Folick developed a record that honored the sides of herself not present with her partner.