While Barbie was being marketed to young girls, in 1964 Hasbro gave boys a savage war hero named G.I. Joe. The company attempted to keep the word “doll” out of the G.I. Joe lexicon, marketing the toy as an “action figure” instead. While G.I. Joe would eventually undergo changes...
They write about being bullied in elementary school. They write about the terrifying loneliness of experiencing their first years of college on Zoom, about their fears that they will never go back to being the same people they were before the pandemic, about their imposter syndrome and borderline...
“He buckled your seat belt for you? Did you want him to? Do you really like a man to buckle you in?” Notice how I asked these questions instead of the other ones: “Are you in love? Are you ready to get married? Where will y’all live, and oh my God, will you be having ...
Italian soldiers crept into Pontelandolfo in the middle of the night. Everyone was asleep. Within minutes soldiers started pounding on doors, the church bells started to ring, guns were fired, boots pounded on the cobblestones. Sleeping families woke up. Holding their drowsy babies, parents wonder...
“Don’t be ridiculous,” my mother tells me. She is English, from the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, and moved to New York in the 1950s. “Everyone is being very friendly. Hassan, the super, knocked on our door to see if we were all right. When I went outside, it reminded me...