Jia Tolentino

2 months ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jia Tolentino |Jake Nevins

To get this out of the way, I’m wildly biased when it comes to Haley Mlotek. I’ve been enamored of her since we first met over a decade ago, when she and Jazmine Hughes took over the editorship of the dearly, monstrously departed website The Hairpin from Emma Carmichael and me.

Dec 7, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Jia Tolentino

The particulars of this murder are strange and remarkable: it occurred in public; the suspected shooter went to Starbucks beforehand; he got away from the scene via bicycle; he has not yet been found. But the public reaction has been even wilder, even more lawless. The jokes came streaming in on every social-media platform, in the comments underneath every news article.

Dec 7, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jia Tolentino

A Boy, 4, Vanished on Way to Summer Camp. Then a Family Friend's Teenage Son Started Asking Alarming QuestionsMore than 30 years ago, 13-year-old Eric Smith raised a worrying concern with his family when he asked what might happen if it was a kid who killed their 4-year-old neighbor Derrick Robie. Earlier in the morning on Aug. 2, 1993, investigators discovered Robie’s body and quickly determined the young …

Nov 22, 2024 | abigailwise.substack.com | Martin Fritz Huber |Jia Tolentino |Ryleigh Nucilli |Abigail Wise

A mom in Georgia was recently arrested and charged with reckless conduct after her ten-year-old son was found walking less than a mile from her home. I can’t stop thinking about it. Many of us grew up riding our bikes around the neighborhood and walking with friends to the lake down the bike path. Even now, with a two-year-old, I wonder how much freedom is good for him: Is it OK if he wanders around the upper area of our farm, where I can mostly see him and hear him when the window’s cracked?

Nov 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino

In 1970, a few years before Roe v. Wade, feminists agitating for abortion rights, at a Philadelphia protest, held up signs that said “My Body, My Decision”—a slogan that morphed, during the course of the next decade, into “My body, my choice.” This became the defining phrase of the pro-choice movement, a line toward which feminism moved aspirationally and asymptotically.