Looking skyward, looking inward
This week, Northrop Grumman's nineteenth commercial resupply services mission for NASA blasted off from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It was the end of an era. The first stage of the...
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
“The outfit is never what matters”: why groping doesn’t make you a real man
When I read about this sentencing scandal in Italy, I asked myself how many times I’ve been groped in my life. I turn 40 next year and the truth is, at this point, I don’t even remember —...
My sexy, tempestuous, dark America
On July 4th this year, I made up a random list of what I treasure about the United States of America, my beautiful adopted motherland. Nobody noticed the list that much — there’s a lot happening...
Bluesky thinking on social media and mental health
Out of all the potential Twitter replacements that have been popularized since Elon Musk took over, Bluesky is my favorite. It is decentralized and currently invite-only, which obviously means that...
You are not my savior
This week, I wrote a Facebook post about how unpleasant it is when smelly men hit on me in discourteous ways. A man immediately messaged me to explain what I was doing wrong and how I could prevent...
The luxury of not giving a fuck
I never asked to be a woman. The more spiritual people I know will probably disagree. “Oh, we all agree on the life we lead before we get to this world.” Maybe, there’s something to it. Still,...
How does George Santos continue to surprise us?
One of my favorite, so to speak, people in Washington D.C. is finally facing criminal charges. That’s right, congressman George Santos stands accused of violating campaign finance laws and other...
The toxic gurus using their power for bad
I wish I could say that Andrew Tate was not my problem. Life is stressful enough for me as it is. But ever since this particular creepy influencer has been hit with human trafficking and rape charges...
The secret life of DC is definitely not boring
I’m lucky to have friends who live in many different places. Some are in London, others in NYC. A large concentration of people I love lives in Kyiv, though many are displaced because of the war....
As the star of the the FBI/Fat Ass Incident, I have things to say
Out of all of the dumb things that have happened to me lately, nothing bewilders me more than the Russian-American woman who threatened me with the FBI and then called my ass fat. It’s bewildering,...