Satire & Essays & PROFILES
CHICAGO MAGAZINE Q&As
Profile of children’s health advocate Dana Suskind
Profile of Diana Parker-Kafka of the Midwest Access Coalition
GUEST BLOG POSTS
NEW YORK TIMES BLOG POSTS ON MIGRAINE
Selected posts:
Selected posts:
Remembering Sandra Lee Bartky, feminist philosophy pioneer
Migraine: The North Korea of Disabilities (on lack of funding into migraine)
New Face of Jane in Chicago (profile of Chicago Abortion Fund)
BOOKS REVIEWED BY PAULA:
FROM THE WOMEN’S REVIEW OF BOOKS:
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement. By Andi Zeisler. September/October 2016
Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health. By Joanna Kempner. May/June 2015
SATIRE
“What Level of Atrocity Must Whole Foods Commit Before I Stop Shopping There?” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, August 15, 2016
“Why I Love the Alinea Baby,” (on lowering the bar on kids’ behavior in restaurants) Crain’s Chicago Business, January 15, 2014
VINTAGE SATIRES
“Right Makes Rich,” Washington Post, April 21, 1996 (also published in another form in 1998 anthology Shiny AdidasTrack Suits and the Death of Camp (And Other Essays from Might Magazine)
Camping Out in Suburban Babylon, Grey City Journal, April 29, 1994
“Operation Queen Esther, published in Appeal to Reason: The First Twenty-Five Years of In These Times, edited by Craig Aaron, 2002
"The Preppy Syndrome," Chicago Tribune, 1982.
ANTHOLOGY contributor
Essay on 1990s pro-sex campus acquaintance rape activism reprinted in many textbooks, including:
Women and the National Experience: Sources in American History, Combined Volume, Pearson 3rd Edition. Edited by Ellen Skinner, 2011
A Concise Women’s History, Penguin Academic Edition, 1st edition. (ID: 22693) Edited by Mari Jo Buhle, Terry Murphy, Jane Gerhard, 2014
Excerpt from All in My Head published in Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak about Health Care in America, edited by Colleen McKee and Amanda Stiebel, 2008.
Two scenes from Jane play excerpted in Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, by Haymarket Press, 2020.
VINTAGE COMMENTARIES
Feminism, A Dirty Word, New York Times, November 23, 1990
Erasing Rape: Media Hype, An Attack on Sexual-Assault Research, Extra! November/December 1993
How Iris Chang Became a Verb, Salon.com, December 1, 2004
Kobe and the New Currency of ‘No”, In These Times, September 23, 2003
Our Hillary Ourselves: Where pundits hiss, working women applaud the First Lady, Salon.com, February 11, 1998
