Ever since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are "children," throwing access to IVF in the state into chaos, Republican officials have been tripping over themselves to make feckless statements about the fertility procedure. Enter Mississippi's Agriculture Commissioner, Andy Gipson, who is for some reason weighing in on the matter because of a bill in the legislature that would protect the right to IVF in the state. In a video statement Gipson shared on social media on Thursday, he baselessly says the bill... Читать дальше...
The For You Page is a new bi-weekly column by Alise Morales that will explore, inspect, traverse, sift through, and dive into internet culture. It’s been a little over a week since the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience reminded us all what the internet is like at its best. For the uninitiated, the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience was an immersive event that promised a day of enchantment, fun, and chocolate for the children of Glasgow, Scotland, and their parents. Instead, they got an AI-generated nightmare... Читать дальше...
South by Southwest kicks off today in Austin, Texas, and for the first time ever, Jezebel will be there. (We're obviously not literally taking over but if you're in town, come find us.) On Sunday and Monday, we'll be posted up at High Noon with our friends at Paste Magazine for the JezebelxPaste Interview House. From 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., we'll be conducting a bunch of interviews with a ton of guests including Jonathan Groff, Devery Jacobs, the directors of Preconceived, the cast of The Uninvited (including Elizabeth Reaser)... Читать дальше...
Aoife O’Donovan isn’t one to sit still. Literally. In the throes of album promotion and getting her daughter to school, O'Donovan had just returned home from a run when we spoke earlier this month. It's been two years since the prolific singer-songwriter from Massachusetts released Age of Apathy, her seventh record. Now, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has returned with her first self-produced LP, All My Friends (out March 22). Timed to Women’s History Month, the nine-song collection was inspired... Читать дальше...
Ever since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are "children," plunging access to IVF—which requires routine destruction of embryos—into chaos across the state, anti-abortion politicians across the country are being taken to task over their batshit policy position that "life begins at conception." On Thursday, in contrast with Democrats who brought IVF patients to the State of the Union address, House Speaker Mike Johnson was on CBS, hedging yet again on his stance about the fertility technology. Читать дальше...
Welcome back to Barf Bag. Thursday night was the State of the Union and, when it came to abortion, Joe Biden served what I can only describe as a vanilla ice cream cone: It gave you a little sugar high, but then quickly made you feel unwell. Not once did Biden say the word "abortion" and while he did dunk on the Supreme Court, he also pledged to pass legislation to fix the abortion crisis that those very same justices will likely strike down. (Also, his entire plan to win re-election seems to hinge... Читать дальше...
Well, President Joe Biden managed to surprise me by bringing up abortion within the first 15 minutes of his State of the Union address Thursday night rather than making it an afterthought. Biden rightfully devoted much more time to the topic than he did last year, and he teed it up as an "assault on freedom." And to the glee of people online, he came for the Supreme Court justices in attendance by quoting Justice Samuel Alito's smarmy words from the Dobbs opinion back to them. Alito wrote that if women didn't like the ruling overturning Roe v. Читать дальше...
On Friday, Natalie Portman's very buzzed-about divorce from Benjamin Millepied was officially finalized and according to Us Weekly, the May December star is actually very OK with it! “Benjamin would love to have Natalie back, but she’s not interested right now," a source told the tabloid. “They’re being very civil toward each other for the kids.” We always appreciate a mature divorce dynamic but we go crazy for one that includes a woman who's utterly uninterested in reconciliation--especially with a rumored philanderer. Читать дальше...
