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Aubrey Hirsch
@aubreyhirsch
Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
NYC-ish
Joined April 2011
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    It’s likely I’ll still post links to new work here for the time being, but if you’re looking for the jokes, hot takes, and general ramblings, here’s where to find me: Instagram: @aubreyhirsch BlueSky: @aubreyhirsch Threads: @aubreyhirsch Substack:
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    Love an immediate, same-sentence fact-check.
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    Guy at the gym just made me stop my workout and take off my headphones so he could tell me I look great, and then when I said “Oh. I know, *he* was annoyed.
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    I feel like I’ve been saying “This is a particularly hard week” for like 3 years.
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    I went to a new gynecologist today and the room was SO WARM that I became instantly and irreparably angry at every other gynecologist's office that has left me shivering in the little paper dress for twenty-five years.
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    If you hate the idea of having to wear a mask on an airplane against your will, wait until you hear about having to carry an unwanted pregnancy inside your body on an airplane against your will.
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    Kid in my son’s class explained to me that she was sure he has two moms because he has “the pretty mom and the other mom.” She described each to me in some detail. Reader, both are me.
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    Can I ask you a couple questions about your apartment?
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    If they won’t let women have methotrexate because they might accidentally become pregnant and miscarry the embryo, we should sure as hell not let men have guns because sometimes they go nuts and murder a bunch random strangers at concerts and parades on purpose.
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    Me: This edible is trash. Me, 20 minutes later: Man, it’s a good thing air is see-through or humans would be so fucked.
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    Being a woman is cool because your body can literally go in and out of style.
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    It’s simple, guys. Other countries don’t have mass shootings because all of their schools and churches and nightclubs and grocery stores and outdoor concert arenas have only one door.
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    Keep seeing tik toks of parents complaining that the “girl” toddler shorts are way shorter than the “boy” toddler shorts and parent hack: you can just buy the “boy” shorts for your daughter, like they don’t enforce it
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    I was googling “Steve Martin banjo” because human sexuality is a deeply complicated thing and, um, can we have a conversation about this picture?
    A picture of young Steve Martin with long dark hair, a beard, and a banjo.