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Dear Governor Stitt: Do You Know What It’s Like to Have a Female Body?

Why does Oklahoma’s Governor and its legislature want to keep women from protecting their own bodies? Dear Governor Stitt & the Legislature of Oklahoma: Since you have legislated against the bodies of women with SB 612, you must have deep insight into what it’s like to have a female body…

Abortion

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Dear Governor Stitt: Do You Know What It’s Like to Have a Female Body?
Dear Governor Stitt: Do You Know What It’s Like to Have a Female Body?
Abortion

4 min read


Mar 12, 2022

Let Them Work f&%$ing Harder

Can the average person compare their twerk at werk and life to the great Kardashian brand? — I’ve long wondered when the toxic American brew of ‘hustle culture’ and our infamous reality treasures ‘the Kardashians’ would line up and join forces for some ‘viral online content’. Finally! It’s happened, like a long-awaited planet-alignment in the dark sky — our unhealthiest work-harder brags and E!Queens …

Kardashian

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Let Them Work f&%$ing Harder
Let Them Work f&%$ing Harder
Kardashian

7 min read


Published in Human Parts

·Apr 11, 2021

I Miss Having a Full Face and I Miss Seeing Yours

Our eyes are tired of communicating, and our pixelated faces are so 2020 — I must admit something. I have Covid-19-inspired face lust. We’ve been watched by the walls of our homes since March 2020 and have seen too few real, in-person faces. It’s all been face porn, watching characters on TV as our pets stare on. …

Covid 19

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I Miss Having a Full Face and I Miss Seeing Yours
I Miss Having a Full Face and I Miss Seeing Yours
Covid 19

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Published in The Shadow

·Jan 28, 2021

The Un-Glamming of the White House Press Secretary: Jen Psaki’s Nude Matte Lip.

Emerging like a fresh-faced phoenix from the burning shards of an autocracy and perching herself on the lectern of the White House Press Room, there Jen Psaki was — subtly blushed and freshly mascara’d. …

Makeup

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The Un-glamming of the White House Press Secretary: Jen Psaki’s Nude Matte Lip.
The Un-glamming of the White House Press Secretary: Jen Psaki’s Nude Matte Lip.
Makeup

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Nov 20, 2020

Giuliani’s Liquid Hair and other Monster Masks

A Look at the Trump’s Administration’s Final Lewks — Brooklyn exploded when Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. I was sitting on my stoop chatting with a good friend as a joyful yell leapt out a window near us. …

Makeup

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Giuliani’s Liquid Hair and other Monster Masks
Giuliani’s Liquid Hair and other Monster Masks
Makeup

6 min read


Feb 26, 2020

Buttigieg’s Stubble and Klobuchar’s Bang-Shake

a closer look and the debate lewks The over-produced debates on high def TV’s are indelicate when it comes to faces. Onscreen, the candidates resemble a coked-up friend at 2am who is shouting, shimmying, and sweating at you. It’s all so fast and loud— especially at last night’s South Carolina debate, with everyone waving their hands like they’re out raving in 1997. Never in my life have I seen so much face-skin! The exact texture, so visible we can feel it. Every make-up decision is obvious, making every mistake glaring. Not a single eye-brow hair escapes the blinding truth of the cameras.

Debate

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Buttigieg’s Stubble, and Klobuchar’s Bang-Shake
Buttigieg’s Stubble, and Klobuchar’s Bang-Shake
Debate

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Apr 30, 2018

Michelle Wolf and the Lie-Ashes of Sander’s Makeup Caboodle

Let’s explore symbolism, parallels, and basic parts of speech, y’all! Michelle Wolf didn’t shame Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her appearance. She told a joke addressing Sander’s hootenanny of lies to the White House Press Corp, while hypothesizing she uses the ash-of-her-lies to create a ‘perfect smokey eye’. …

Makeup

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Michelle Wolf and the Lie-Ashes of Sander’s Makeup Caboodle
Michelle Wolf and the Lie-Ashes of Sander’s Makeup Caboodle
Makeup

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Published in Extra Newsfeed

·Oct 19, 2017

How to do a Smokey Eye During A Patriarchal Political Apocalypse

Everything is great so let’s get glam! Hey guys! It’s me. Thought I’d holler at y’all with some hot tips on how to achieve a sultry smokey eye, in case you’re feeling particularly femme fatale this season, or are in a hurry to achieve some beauty goals since it could…

Makeup

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How to do a Smokey Eye During A Patriarchal Political Apocalypse
How to do a Smokey Eye During A Patriarchal Political Apocalypse
Makeup

7 min read


Jul 29, 2017

The Enduring Love of Bright Lips

I first felt that I could be my own person when I realized I could put something bright on my lips. I was allowed in elementary school to wear lipstick when performing in plays or dance recitals, or I could ‘play’ if I asked properly, and would ask if I could wear the color up an down the block before removing it. I was a born bright-lip exhibitionist. I’d sneak into my mom’s make-up drawers and would slather colors on my face and lips until I felt satisfied. It took layers until I felt that click of satisfaction. When it was right, it was brain-buzzingly perfect.

Beauty

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The Enduring Love of Bright Lips
The Enduring Love of Bright Lips
Beauty

3 min read


Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Jul 8, 2017

Makeup Anxiety During The Trump Times

Do our current leaders trust makeup artists? — There’s a siren going off my head, growing louder by the day since the new administration took power. It blares as certain faces flash across the screen. I could be talking about so many things, but I’m currently talking about makeup. My brow furrows as I ponder how all of this has happened. Who is powdering these faces? Maybe most of us are simply used to it now — but haven’t you once wondered: Why is Trump Orange? IS Steve Bannon actually OK, health-wise? Why does Stephen Miller look like he’s sweating under so much matte makeup? Who did Kellyanne Conway’s makeup today? She could look better! Is…

Beauty

8 min read

Makeup Anxiety During The Trump Times
Makeup Anxiety During The Trump Times
Beauty

8 min read

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Sarah Graalman

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Makeup Artist. Writer. Dip-maker. www.sarahgraalman.com

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