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Laura Bogart

Laura Bogart is the author of the novel "Don't You Know I Love You" (Dzanc Book, 2020). Her work has appeared in DAME, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other publications. 

Lena Dunham attends the UK Premiere of "Catherine Called Birdy" at The Curzon Mayfair on September 20, 2022 in London, England. (Getty Images/Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Lena Dunham and I both had hysterectomies, but I reject her grand, unified thesis on infertility

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Alicia Machado; Donald Trump (Getty/Robyn Beck/AP/John Locher)

“Beauty treated like a beast”: The backlash against Donald Trump’s fat shaming of Alicia Machado shows how deep our fat phobia goes

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Riz Ahmed in "The Night Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” finale: At least we know the cat didn’t do it

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John Turturro and Riz Ahmed in "The Night Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: Are we closer to discovering the truth?

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Amara Karan, Riz Ahmed and John Turturro in "The NIght Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: The trial of Naz begins

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John Turturro in "The Night Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: When a “good boy” goes bad

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Glenne Headly and Riz Ahmed in "The Night Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: The defense gears up, the wild calls, and a slow burn erupts

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Riz Ahmed in "The Night Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: The new, terrifying reality sets in

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John Turturro and Riz Ahmed in "The NIght Of" (HBO)

“The Night Of” recap: Naz goes into the belly of the beast

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“The Night Of” recap: Down the rabbit hole

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Sophie Turner in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

Sansa Stark has always been a warrior: She’s been fierce all along — and it kept her alive

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Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: Explosive season finale sets the great game in motion

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Emilia Clarke, Pilou Asbæk and Lena Headey in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” needs a new big bad: With Ramsay out of the way, a villainous void must be filled

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Sophie Turner and Kit Harington in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: The “Battle of the Bastards” may be the most intense episode yet

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“Game of Thrones” recap: Say her name

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Emilia Clarke in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

What’s the deal with Daenerys? “Game of Thrones” needs to break its badass queen out of her rut

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Jerome Flynn and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: “Violence is a disease—you don’t cure it by spreading it to more people”

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Nikola Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: Is power still a shadow on the wall, or does it come from standing in the light?

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/oscarhdez'>oscarhdez</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-79405p1.html'>Annette Shaff</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Holiday kitsch is killing us: I’ve had enough of these pageants of enforced feeling that leave us all empty

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(Associated Press)

Mary Gaitskill broke my heart: “The Mare” stuns — in all the wrong ways

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(Miramax/HBO)

I wanted to go as Daenerys Targaryen or The Bride — but, apparently, badass costumes are not for fat girls.

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(Relativity Media/Warner Bros. Entertainment/Twentieth Century Fox/Salon)

My home on the Island of Daydreaming Girls — with Michael Fassbender, Marlon Brando, and Tom Hardy at my side

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-96482p1.html'>Valeri Potapova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

I will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass

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