In a new bi-monthly column, Story Editor Nicolaia Rips rounds up and reviews the best and worst content people text her.
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Literature
On Reading Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot” During My Freshman Year of College
Story by Taylor Stout Illustration by Maya Cardinali It’s difficult to pinpoint the moment my life changed. Maybe it was the day I received my letter of admission, or when I moved into my dorm room, or attended my first class. My memories of my freshman year of college are so shifting and vivid that…
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Guns and roses and supernovae: a journal entry
Crybaby managing editor Zoe Yu Gilligan journals her thoughts on love, pain, and art.
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What death can teach us about life: talking grief with mother-daughter duo Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
Crybaby sat down with Suzy and Hallie to hear more about their experience as mother-daughter collaborators and how making the book changed their perception of losing a loved one.
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How “Girls and Sex” and “Slutever” taught me to talk about sex often and openly
“While Orenstein told me what sex for young women was, Sciortino told me what it could and should be,” Crybaby’s Editor-in-Chief writes about the importance “Girls and Sex” and “Slutever.”
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Decolonize your bookshelf with these contemporary Indigenous reads
Sick of reading novels by old white men? Crybaby managing editor, Zoe Yu Gilligan, features her favorite books by Indigenous authors.
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Zine feature: Wahala Zine
In one of Crybaby’s columns, Kari Lau features upcoming zines. This time, Lau writes about Wahala, a zine for and by people of the Nigerian diaspora.
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