Bridget Read
The Cut
New York, United States
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Past articles by Bridget:
Is New York Really an Abortion Sanctuary State?
State Senator Alessandra Biaggi says not yet, but it could be. → Read More
Donate to an Abortion Fund Right Now
Now that the Supreme Court has taken up Mississippi’s abortion ban, the fate of Roe v. Wade has never been so uncertain. Here’s how to help women access abortion care right now. → Read More
In Norma Rae It’s Worker Solidarity First, Ambition Second
Today, the movie feels somehow even more urgent, given that four decades of labor activism, third-wave feminism, and the equal-pay movement have still left women lagging behind men in terms of compensation. → Read More
What Should We Do With Our Nuclear Anxiety?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the prospect of nuclear apocalypse has lit up Twitter and crept into our nightmares and group chats. But how concerned should we really be about nuclear war right now, and how should we act? → Read More
Ben McKenzie, Actor Turned Crypto Naysayer
Who knew the world needed a celebrity crypto anti-influencer influencer — and that it would be Ryan from The O.C.? → Read More
The Anti-Mantra for 2022
These four words will hit you like a loving slap in the face. → Read More
The Red-Pilling of Kitson
Kitson was the ultimate aughts shop — Paris and Lindsay and Von Dutch hats and Juicy sweat suits. Now its owner, Fraser Ross, is pushing something even more popular: right-wing conspiracies. → Read More
‘Stay Hydrated and Carry Narcan’
The idea that “there is fentanyl in the cocaine right now” has crystallized into a kind of emergency common knowledge, shared confidently among a certain class of New Yorkers reemerging into the city’s nightlife. The truth is less cut and dry. → Read More
Doing the Work at Work
DEI (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) practitioners share a worldview that workplaces can become more humane and just. They are rivals in a for-profit industry of their own making. Corporate America spends roughly $8 billion annually on diversity. → Read More
Bumble Hero Turns in Capitol Rioter
Robert Chapman of New York has been charged with four misdemeanors, including disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, after someone he matched with on Bumble sent screenshots of their conversation to the FBI. → Read More
New York’s Nursing Homes Were on the Brink. Then COVID Hit.
Coronavirus ripped through nursing homes, killing thousands. One year later, nurses say they never stood a chance. → Read More
AOC Calls Conditions at the Border ‘Inhumane,’ ‘Unacceptable,’ and ‘Horrifying’
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the Biden administration and U.S. foreign policy to task over the record number of children being held in border detention in a virtual town hall. → Read More
There Have Been 7 Mass Shootings in the Past 7 Days
The mass shooting that took place a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on Monday, in which a gunman murdered ten people, is reportedly America’s seventh mass shooting in seven days. → Read More
An Asian Woman Was Attacked on Her Way to an Anti-Hate Protest
A 37-year-old Asian mother was punched in the head in downtown New York on Sunday in an apparent hate crime incident – while on her way to an anti-Asian hate protest nearby. Four more similar incidents occurred over the same weekend. → Read More
Things That Could Be ‘The Snyder Cut’
What is it? We may never ever know, and please don’t tell us. → Read More
Asian Women Are Facing a Terrifying Rise in Hate Incidents
According to new data, 68 percent of anti-Asian incidents reported in the past year came from women. → Read More
Another Scheming High-School Mom Has Been Arrested
In another scheming high-school-mom story, a Florida mother and daughter allegedly conspired to rig a homecoming election. → Read More
‘I Really Believe the Senate Is Broken’
Representative Pramila Jayapal talks with the Cut about the infuriatingly difficult fight for a $15 minimum wage, filibuster reform, and more. → Read More
Ted Cruz Is Already Trying to Joke About His Cancún Trip
While other Texas politicians are in his home state, surveying billions of dollars of damage, Ted Cruz is already joking about his trip to Cancun, when he fled during the worst moments of winter storm Uri. → Read More
Joe Biden Can Cancel All Student Debt. He Just Won’t.
According to Astra Taylor of the Debt Collective and Philadelphia city council member Kendra Brooks, Joe Biden lacks the political will and the conviction to act meaningfully on the student debt crisis. → Read More