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Articles by
Madeleine Trebenski
Madeleine Trebenski is the author of DO I FEEL BETTER YET?: QUESTIONABLE ATTEMPTS AT SELF-CARE AND EXISTING IN GENERAL and her work is included in the collection EMBRACE THE MERCILESS JOY: THE MCSWEENEY’S INTERNET TENDENCY GUIDE TO REARING SMALL, MEDIUM, AND LARGE CHILDREN. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, and on Elizabeth Banks’ “My Body, My Podcast.”
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June 18, 2025I Am Your Body and I Am Done Keeping Score
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April 28, 2023Is He the Perfect Man or Is He Just a Result of the Painstaking Emotional Labor Performed by Every Woman He’s Ever Dated?
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May 6, 2022Happy Non-Optional Legally Mandated State-Enforced Mother’s Day
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November 9, 2020The Nightmare Is Finally Over, and We Can Say with Absolute Certainty That There Will Never Be Another Death Star Ever Again
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September 17, 2020It’s Just a Beach Read
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May 6, 2020How to Quarantine Like a French Girl
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April 30, 2020The Girl from Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” Responds 18 Years Later
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February 14, 2020The Real Saints of Valentine’s Day
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November 8, 2019The Ten Commandments of Workism
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December 20, 2018Guidelines for Female Protagonists in Hallmark Christmas Movies
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May 2, 2018I’m Your Outdoor Dream Girl and Not an Evil Wood Nymph Who Wants to Steal Your Soul
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April 11, 2017Anything Men Can Do, I Can Do Bleeding