Ellie Shechet
VICE
New York, United States
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Dov Charney Is Back
A new docu-series explores the rise and fall of American Apparel and its controversial founder. → Read More
Talking Shit and Saving the Birds
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Advice for the End of the World: Lasik, Water Storage, and Musings On Fertility
For former Jezebel staffer Ellie Shechet, it is nearly always time to freak out. Doom—personal, professional, planetary—awaits, beckoning at the wings. No one has exactly asked for her advice, but we gave her a column anyway. Advice for the End of the World is a limited edition advice column for catastrophic thinkers, by a catastrophic thinker, in a time of looming catastrophe. → Read More
Advice for the End of the World
For former Jezebel staffer Ellie Shechet, it is nearly always time to freak out. Doom—personal, professional, planetary—awaits, beckoning at the wings. No one has exactly asked for her advice, but we gave her a column anyway. Advice for the End of the World is a limited edition advice column for catastrophic thinkers, by a catastrophic thinker, in a time of looming catastrophe. Here are her… → Read More
Can I Please Start Some Drama for One Minute
Recently, I saw a Twitter handle I didn’t like. It was something like—but not exactly—@RedHeadWriterGirl97. I clicked on her avatar, which showed a head full of dyed, muted auburn. You are not a redhead, I thought at her. How could I trust anything @RedHeadWriterGirl97 wrote, when she was being so dishonest about something anyone could see with their own eyes? → Read More
No One Is Safe in Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club
In a time when promises of “escape” are increasingly appealing, reality TV continues to provide a quasi-effective pathway, even as it bleeds unpleasantly into the thing we’re running from. In top-tier shows like Vanderpump Rules, we are not asked to examine reality as it stands, nor are we propelled into an imaginary realm in which we do not exist at all; instead, we peer into a carefully… → Read More
Secretary of State Races Aren't Sexy, But For Some, They're All That Matters
Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson has a plan to save democracy. Will she and her fellow Democratic secretary of state candidates get there in time? → Read More
Want Your Stolen Kid Back? That'll Be $576.20
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. → Read More
Farewell My Friends, and 'The Dame Jo'
When I was hired at Jezebel in late 2014, life instantly and dramatically improved. → Read More
Trump on Roe v. Wade: 'You Never Know How That's Gonna Turn Out'
In an interview with Fox News, the president did his best to hold his cards close to his vest as to whether he’s vetting Supreme Court nominees based on their position on overturning Roe v. Wade—which is to say, he was extremely candid about his administration’s strategy. → Read More
First Lawsuit Filed Against Awful 'Sex Trafficking' Law
The first lawsuit challenging the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (H.R. 1865), otherwise known as SESTA/FOSTA, was filed in federal court last week, claiming that the legislation violates the First and Fifth Amendments, Melissa Gira Grant reports at The Appeal. As anticipated by opponents of the legislation, complainants including Human Rights Watch and the Woodhull… → Read More
My Life Inside the Wellness Trap
“I feel like my whole life is a question,” I declared dramatically to a group of strangers one night in early June, as I balanced awkwardly on a fat millennial pink pillow. Around me was a group of mostly women who’d paid $108 to participate in a “medicine reading ceremony” in SoHo, a neighborhood I don’t typically associate with relaxation or healing. The ceremony, explained on the website as… → Read More
Alexandria Orcasio-Cortez to Nancy Pelosi: 'It's Not Just One District'
On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave reporters her take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s win: “They made a choice in one district.” → Read More
Immigration Attorney Says She Was 'Knocked to the Ground and Bloodied' by ICE
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. → Read More
Elizabeth Warren Describes 'Horrors' at Border Processing Center
In an article published by Daily Kos, Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered yet more horrifying information about the family separation crisis at the border. → Read More
White House Says It's 'Out of Resources' to Continue Locking Up Migrant Families
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. → Read More
Get This Look: Tactical Pants
Hi, there’s something I really need to talk to you about. It’s been weighing on my mind for the past 24 hours. It starts with a “T,” and ends with an “-actical pants.” Yes—I’m talking about tactical pants. → Read More
Report: Don Jr. Continues to Be a Sad, Sad Man
A new profile of Donald Trump, Jr., written by Julia Ioffe in GQ, underscores what we have long known deeply in our hearts: That he is very dumb, and has spent his entire life trying in vain to make his sociopathic father love him, to the extent that he has transformed himself into a living, breathing white nationalist meme. This is, really, all there is to know about the president’s eldest son,… → Read More
Lawsuit Alleges Immigrant Children Forcibly Injected With Antipsychotic Drugs
Affidavits filed in April claims that migrant children in a taxpayer-funded facility with a history of abuse allegations were forcibly injected with powerful anti-psychotic medications, Reveal reports. In an interview with Reveal, forensic psychiatrist Mark. J. Mills compared the practice to tactics used in the former Soviet Union. → Read More
Migrant Parents Face a Long, Complicated Road Ahead to Get Their Children Back
After the official launch of Jeff Sessions’ “zero-tolerance policy” in April, which mandates the criminal prosecution of everyone who crosses the border without authorization, at least 2,300 children—over a hundred of whom are under the age of four—have been forcibly separated from their parents. (The Trump administration has insisted that those seeking asylum ought to simply cross at sanctioned… → Read More