Isabelle Kohn

Jan 16, 2025 | slate.com | Isabelle Kohn

Metropolis Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Monday, Jan. 6, my best friend left on a road trip to Texas. As he later told me, he had a strange, intrusive thought as he locked the door and turned to leave: “I’d be OK if all this burned to the ground.” The next day, entire swaths of Los Angeles did exactly that.

Aug 15, 2024 | slate.com | Jesse Sheidlower |Isabelle Kohn |Hillary Frey

Boobs are back. Also, they never went away. A series exploring breasts, from all angles.

Aug 13, 2024 | slate.com | Isabelle Kohn

Skip to the content Life Boobs are back. Also, they never went away. This is part of Boobs Week—read the whole thing here. In What It’s Like, people tell us, well, what it’s like to have experiences many of us have not even imagined. In this entry, we spoke to Yana, a 34-year-old adult performer and director in Michigan who has a rare condition that causes undeveloped or missing chest tissue on one side of the body.

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Isabelle Kohn

Boobs are back. Also, they never went away. This is part of Boobs Week—read the whole thing here. In What It’s Like, people tell us, well, what it’s like to have experiences many of us have not even imagined. In this entry, we spoke to Yana, a 34-year-old adult performer and director in Michigan who has a rare condition that causes undeveloped or missing chest tissue on one side of the body. (She goes by just her first name for safety.) For Yana, this means she only has one breast.

Dec 21, 2023 | slate.com | Isabelle Kohn

Skip to the content Family The gift arrived early, as it did every year, in a plain brown box. For weeks, it winked at me from beneath our fake plastic Christmas tree, an aura of mischief seeming to radiate from within. It looked odd nestled among the brighter, more festively adorned presents, a deceptively simple package I knew to contain a mysterious armament of war.