About

Elissa Strauss is an essayist and blogger who writes about gender and culture. She has contributed to publications like the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Jezebel and the Forward, where she is a lead blogger for the Sisterhood blog. Previously, she covered New York's Latino community for the New York Daily News.

She is also the co-artistic director of LABA, a non-religious Jewish house of study for culture-makers at the 14th Street Y in New York City. 


You can reach her at elissaavery-at-gmail.com

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Recent Work

"I'm not that ambitious, and that's okay," Salon


"Orange Is The New Black": Just an Edgier Version of "The Help," Salon.

"The Hipster Racism of Reality TV," Salon.

"What the Bling Ring Gets Wrong about Valley Girls," Salon.

"I Enjoyed My Son's Bris," the New York Times.

"Feminist Childbirth is Much Bigger than a Bathtub," Al Jazeera 

"The Lazy Birthing Manifesto," Jezebel.

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