Sascha Cohen

Jun 25, 2024 | lux-magazine.com | Sascha Cohen

In Gilda Radner’s 1989 memoir, the comedian confessed to “having every possible eating disorder by the time I was nine years old.” She desperately wanted to be as thin as her SNL co-star Laraine Newman, but New York City was filled with delicious temptations, “hot dogs and falafels, pizzas, ice cream, pretzels, charbroiled steaks with smells that steamed out of street vendors’ stalls.” So Radner figured out a way to manage her weight: “I became bulimic before medical science even gave it a...

Sep 25, 2023 | thenation.com | Jeet Heer |Sascha Cohen |Kali Holloway |Mychal Denzel Smith

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Sep 25, 2023 | thenation.com | Rina Rossi |Sascha Cohen |Barry Schwabsky |Chris Lehmann

Activism / StudentNation / A student group at the University of California conducted a study of Title IX services, revealing sharp disparities on campus. “We thought if we did a survey then they would have to listen to us.”Ad PolicyIn November 2020, Survivors + Allies, a group of University of California students that advocates for and with survivors of sexual violence, met with the Systemwide Title IX office.

Sep 16, 2023 | thenation.com | Laila Lalami |Zito Madu |Sascha Cohen |Kate Wagner

Culture / Books & the Arts / Chantal Montellier’s vision of the future. A new volume collects the pioneering French comic artist’s work. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the October 2/9, 2023 issue. Why do we turn to dystopian fiction when disaster looms? Last year, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, protesters showed up to rallies dressed in the blood-red cloaks and white bonnets that Margaret Atwood conceived in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

Sep 16, 2023 | thenation.com | Sascha Cohen

FOSTA-SESTA made sex workers less safe and the Internet less free. A spate of new laws is deepening the damage. Facebook Twitter Email In April of 2018, when Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, sex workers and civil liberties groups sounded the alarm.