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Jessica Roake

Jessica Roake

What Else Is In the National Portrait Gallery’s “Offensive” Gay Show?

The Catholic League has called some of the art “vile,” Rep. John Boehner has called for investigations into “how taxpayer funds are used”…

May 10, 2016

What Else Is In the National Portrait Gallery’s “Offensive” Gay Show?

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

Thomas the Imperialist Tank Engine

There is something rotten on the Island of Sodor, home to Thomas the Tank Engine. Viewers won’t find guns, violence, or anything even…

May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

So Long, Holden

Illustration by Noah Van Sciver

May 10, 2016

So Long, Holden

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

Not Helpful

Photo by Dale Robinette/DreamWorks II Distribution Co. LLC

May 10, 2016

Not Helpful

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

How to Survive Henry VIII

Photo courtesy Giles Keyte/Playground & Co. Pictures for Masterpiece/BBC/PBS.

May 10, 2016

How to Survive Henry VIII

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

I AM GOOD MOTHER

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Thinkstock.

May 10, 2016

I AM GOOD MOTHER

May 10, 2016

Jessica Roake

Oddly Specific Fears For My Children

For the Creative-Anxious Parent™ the world is a veritable junkyard of nightmare futures just begging to be collected– what if my child is…

Aug 19, 2015

Aug 19, 2015

Jessica Roake

An Ode to the “Mom’s Night Out”

Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

May 8, 2015

An Ode to the “Mom’s Night Out”

May 8, 2015

Jessica Roake

Ginger Snaps: The Menstrual Horror Movie Of Your Dreams

The horror: Your body, if you are a cis girl, will betray you, and you will fall victim to its ceaseless, lunar-cycled blood reign for what…

Oct 29, 2014

Ginger Snaps: The Menstrual Horror Movie Of Your Dreams

Oct 29, 2014

Jessica Roake

8 Unbelievably Bad Parenting Trends Through History

Nervous parents, rest assured: History has brought with it a handful of very unwise parenting trends — some of which are so shocking that…

Jul 25, 2013

Jul 25, 2013

Jessica Roake

Jessica Roake

Books, Momz, Satire, Excavations of Film “Classics”, Feminism, Imperialist Train Criticism. Slate, The Toast, VICE, Vulture, The Hairpin, WaPost, et al.

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