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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Julia Usiak

MISS-TAKES: Seeing the Marge Simpson in All Our Mothers

By Julia Usiak November 29, 2018

“You’re about to learn the two most dangerous words in the English language are ‘Marge Simpson,’” Marge Simpson herself declared. Marge is more than her orange pearls, her green bodycon...

Julia Usiak

MISS-TAKES: Do Disney Movies Pass the Bechdel Test?

By Julia Usiak October 31, 2018

The propensity to walk through crowded streets with a nose stuck in a book. The tendency to launch myself out of pools, whipping my hair back in an arc. An affinity for men who give me stolen apples and...

Julia Usiak

MISS-TAKES: Manic Pixie Dream Girl Chooses Her Own Adventure

By Julia Usiak October 4, 2018

Oh, hey. I didn’t see you there, until precisely this very moment, when I climbed off my Harley-Davidson Freewheeler, removed my vintage leather bomber jacket, and shook out my helmet, revealing my a)...

Julia Usiak

MISS-TAKES: My Future Daughter’s Required Reading

By Julia Usiak September 19, 2018

“Can I steal a Safeway handbasket to use instead of a purse?” I discovered this gem of a musing while leafing through my fifth-grade journal, a treasure trove of forgotten thoughts, feelings and...

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