Hayley Krischer
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New Jersey, United States
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Past articles by Hayley:
The Lingering Wounds of Friendship Breakups
Writing a novel about toxic friendships dredged up feelings about relationships I didn't know I still had. → Read More
Hayley Krischer
Hayley has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Refinery 29, Racked, Talking Points Memo, The Hairpin, and more. She also writes a semi-regular pop culture newsletter, So Very. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. → Read More
How Heroin Came for Middle-Class Moms
The rate of women using and abusing heroin (after graduating from prescription painkillers) is skyrocketing at a much faster rate than that of men. Factors include a higher burden of mental health issues among women, as well as their hormones. And this increase requires new ways of treating them. → Read More
My Wild Quest to Become a (Semi) Bona Fide Psychic
Spoiler alert: turns out I was a witch in my past life. → Read More
My Wild Quest to Become a (Semi) Bona Fide Psychic
Spoiler alert: turns out I was a witch in my past life. → Read More
The Death of the "Bikini Body"
Is the "bikini body" over? The fat positive movement is changed traditional beauty standards. → Read More
The Death of the "Bikini Body"
Are we finally over the idea that only some people look good in swimsuits? → Read More
The Death of the "Bikini Body"
Are we finally over the idea that only some people look good in swimsuits? → Read More
Before Billionaires Wore Hoodies: The Forgotten Class History of '80s Youth
In 1988, Reis O’Brien would never have admitted to his friends that his mom sewed the metal-band patches onto his denim vest. Once it got a baseline of patches—the massive one of the album cover for Ozzy’s “Ultimate Sin” was his favorite—he filled it in with others from metal bands like Slayer, AC/DC, Motorhead and Metallica. → Read More
How 'The Jinx' Gave Me Empathy For A Serial Killer
Research has long shown that empathy stems from two different factors. One is emotional, meaning empathy is triggered by your baggage, your family experience, what you bring to the table. The other is cognitive, which is your perspective, and, say, how interested you might be in hearing another person’s side of the story. Empathy is also different than sympathy; the former is sharing someone’s… → Read More
Hysteria and Teenage Girls
It was a typical Thursday night at Smash Burger. My friend was with her two sons who were furiously stuffing sweet potato French fries in their mouths. In the booth behind her, my friend saw a young boy who looked a lot like Justin Bieber. So she called her 16-year-old-niece, Kate (not her real name), [...] → Read More
The Middle-Classism of Teen Movies
There’s a scene in Allison Anders’ Gas Food Lodging where sisters Trudi and Shade slouch in a truck stop diner booth. Nora, their mother, a waitress, is covering two stations. Trudi (played by Ione Skye) won’t eat because she’d rather starve then risk “smelling like grease and fish.” Trudi hates her town, the trailer park [...] → Read More
Our Technology May Be New, But Our Fear Of It Is Ancient
The other day, I pointed out the pink sunset between the cluster of bare winter trees behind our house to my five-year-old daughter, and she turned to me, her face blank and said, “Is that real?” → Read More
Lisa Rinna, Valerie Cherish and the Humiliating Task of Staying Relevant
Lisa Rinna is now on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" -- she's a refreshing addition, especially after the really desperate women who've come through the show. Not to say Lisa Rinna isn't desperate -- she is, but she admits this.... → Read More
Fast Company promoted a live chat with creepy “male feminist”
Charles Clymer self-identifies as a "feminist leader," but he's also been accused of verbally abusing women → Read More
How to survive an apocalypse: What pop culture taught me about living through the end of the world
Everything I've gleaned from such wellsprings of post-apocalyptic wisdom as "World War Z" and "The Walking Dead" → Read More
Yesterday’s pin-up girls: This New York mag piece couldn’t have come at a better time
After all the uproar over the pressure Hollywood puts on women, this feature was just what the culture needed → Read More
No, Kate Middleton isn’t “glowing”
The media is determined to foist a perfect pregnancy narrative onto Middleton, despite all evidence to the contrary → Read More
Confessions of an obsessive fan: Billy Joel and the “horror” of modern celebrity
Joel tells The New Yorker that he doesn't want to write more music because his fans won't stop analyzing everything → Read More
Why I’m considering botox
Frances McDormand disapproves of women who artificially "mutate their faces." Sure, I get it--but I disagree → Read More