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...
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
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,...
Shattered and galvanized
Ukrainian war photographer Julia Kochetova recently wrote on her Instagram: “I hope the war ends before my heart does.” It’s a simple and elegant statement. Like a slap across the face. Both...
Cosplaying as a cool guy in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
When it comes to the aesthetics of the apocalypse, human beings have always dreamed vividly about the end of the world. I like to think that this is because we are a world unto ourselves. Awareness...
Fretting my way to hope
All of the tolerable jokes about Chinese spy balloons have already been made. I don’t have any new ones. What I do have is a strange sense of unease. Several people whom I trust and respect predict...
Santos: funny until he’s not
I am catastrophically bad at lying. It’s why I could never be a spy (no matter what awful men with strange fantasies say about me online), or work in politics for that matter. Having said that,...