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July 8, 2017
Dames Nation! Can you believe that Carly Rae Jepsen invented ecstatic, bounding heartache in pop music? We hate to contradict a pop genius, but that’s where...
A Compendium of Books to Stain With Chlorine, Saltwater, & Rosé
July 1, 2017
Dames Nation, are you looking for music to take you from lolling about in the grass... ..to shaking your finest tailfeathers? Because, if yes, NPR Music’s...
It’s Always Sunny in Malaysia: Two Bossy Dames But With 100% Humidity!
June 23, 2017
Hello Dames Nation!It’s our honour to be stepping in for Dames Sophie and Margaret while they both go on their well-deserved summer breaks, and to lull you...
Seriously? Seriously. Also Frivolously.
June 17, 2017
Hi, Friends. Before we get started, a content warning: we talk about the wholly unacceptable verdict in the case seeking some measure of justice for Philando...
Lady Rage, Male Zen, and Carly Rae Feels
June 10, 2017
WELCOME, Dames Nation!Has the world been leaving you a bit ANGRY lately? If yes, maybe it’s worth taking a minute to revisit our Bossy Take on “Lady Rage”...
Dame Sophie's Ongoing Quest for Cultural Catharsis
June 10, 2017
yessss, let the feels flow through you “You seem to cry a lot lately. Are you ok?” My youngest sister worries about me, and from a distance, reading my self-...
Headphone Happiness and a Shockingly Minimal Amount of Harold Fashion
June 3, 2017
AHOY, BELOVED INTERFAITH CHUMS OF DAMES NATION! We’re back and we hope you’re all well-rested and ready for another heady brew of enthusiasticcultural...
Cardigans & Edicts & MUCH Advice
May 20, 2017
We don’t want to open every week’s newsletter with “It’s been quite a week!”But.IT’S BEEN QUITE A WEEK, Y’ALL.So what we needed, more than anything in the...
Forearmed is Forewarned
May 13, 2017
Dames Nation, as Mother’s Day approaches, we and Chris Messina have an important reminder for you: What gift do We Your Dames and Mr. Messina have in mind...
Scams of Recent History & The Art of the Con
May 6, 2017
So, we’re sure, by this point, that you’re already aware of the MASSIVE clusterfuck that was Fyre Festival What we have been reliably informed is live...
Old Baby Queers & Awkward Baby Deers
April 29, 2017
Greetings, Dames Nation!May we all be as joyful as this sweet pup, truly an expert in her field.Hello, darlings, it's springtime here in the Northern...
Pandas & Sunnies & Nighies, Oh My!
April 15, 2017
Look, Dames Nation, plenty of things happened this week. But can we argue that ANY of them are more important than this video of a red panda being startled...
Opulence, Dimples, and Our Lady of Perpetual Pettiness
April 8, 2017
Dames Nation, grab your boas, grab your pearls... ….because THIS VERY SUNDAY, we will be hosting a livetweet of the classic documentary Paris is Burning!...
A Brief Harry Styles Primer For Young Olds
April 2, 2017
by Dame Sophie, Joyous One Direction Trash
Love, ABBA, and a Treatise on Sophie's Favorite New Rake
April 1, 2017
Dames Nation, you are making us feel so loved! You typically make us feel this way, but the opening of our ~*official*~ Two Bossy Dames store has brought it...
we'll all be together, even when we're not together
March 25, 2017
EXTRA, EXTRA!THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS IN THE WORLD! Do you recall our stunning new logo, wherein We Your Dames look like actual Disney princesses, drawn by...
Your St Patrick’s Day Shot of Scandalous Undertakings
March 17, 2017
Hello, friends and strangers! Your beloved Dames have the week off, and as they -- we assume -- sit on the lanai and raise mai tais to one another over...
Only the Week's Most Erudite Clickbait
March 12, 2017
Everyone once in awhile, you encounter a piece of clickbait to which the only possible response is: And such is the case with this week’s header, via Town &...
Oh, We'll Show YOU Sweet
March 5, 2017
Dames Nation, Do We Have a Treat For You!Guest Editors Betsy Bird & Jules Danielsonare here to pinch-hit for us,and what they've put together is an absolute...
Twists & Tunes & Slang & Feels
March 5, 2017
We know it’s been 5 days, but dang you guys, that was a HECK of a twist ending at the Oscars there, huh? Neither Dame Sophie, asleep several hours...
Blessed Mahershala and Other Miscellany
February 26, 2017
Open the newsletter with a gif of Mahershala Ali? WHY NOT???? Dame Margaret finally saw HIDDEN FIGURES this week, so his exquisite face is on her mind, and...
On Being Irrepressible in Repressive Times
February 19, 2017
Raise Your Hand if You’re Still Thinking About Beyoncé’s Grammy Performance The Queen blessed us with an extraordinary performance on Sunday (excerpt here or...
Come With Us Now On A Journey Through Time & Space
February 12, 2017
GREETINGS, NOBLES OF DAMES NATION! Look into our dazzling eyes & prepare your To Read/Listen/Watch Lists for boarding. First of all, thank you to the lovely...
Business, Bossing, and Beybies
February 5, 2017
Put on your most serious glasses, Dames Nation…. Because we have a BUNCH of BUSINESS to attend to at the beginning of this here letter, and then we’ve got...
sure was a week, huh?
January 29, 2017
Well, Dames Nation.This isn’t aninaccurate representation of how the first week of this new administration has left us feeling. Which may be why we lolsobbed...
Rootleaf Stew for the Rebel Soul
January 21, 2017
Stacie: Greetings Dames Nation! Despite the fact that we’re being introduced to you on such an inauspicious date (the fall of the Republic Trump’s...
Careers, Conversation, Canoodling, and Other Assorted Concerns
January 15, 2017
Get Ready For Some Lady Vampire Vengeance, Dames Nation! We’re thrilled to announce our first live-tweet of 2017:A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night!This movie...
back to our regularly scheduled idiosyncratic smorgasbord
January 8, 2017
HAPPY IT’S NOT 2016 ANYMORE, Dames Nation! Sing it, Miss Kubelik.It’s early days yet, and there’s no real reason to suspect that 2017 is going to be an EASY...
The Cooking of Joy
December 23, 2016
Greetings, Dames Nationals!Your guest editors this week are Ruth (perhaps better known as Rave Sashayed, the Internet’s preeminent historian of Boba Fett...
Lumberjacks, George Michael, and Many Different Kinds of Magick
December 17, 2016
Salut, Dames Nation! We love a queering of gender roles! What does Monty Python’s famous Lumberjack song have to do with this week’s newsletter? Well, almost...
Reclaiming "Last Christmas"
December 17, 2016
This image is a beautifully gift-wrapped lie. This one is a more painfully accurate representation of the song yelled about below. Hi, friends. It’s freezing...
Taking a break from all your worries
December 10, 2016
Dames Nationals, Please Get Out Your Needlessly Elaborate Planners. We have a Christmas Witch Party to announce! The ONLY way to make margaritas, really.By...
Molly Weasley, Acoustic Guitar Crimes, and Additional Ephemera
December 3, 2016
HI DAMES NATION!Want to know what made us cry this week?*YOU'RE IN LUCK! Because I (Dame Margaret) just spontaneously decided to open this week's email with...
Friendships and Funny in a Time of Fear
November 19, 2016
Hi, everyone! We are Amy & Maurene—both young adult authors who write contemporary stories about teenagers who we find funny. We were so thrilled to put this...
Bossy Take: This National Nightmare
November 12, 2016
Hi, Dames Nationals.We aren’t doing great. Our present mental state, Part 1 Part 2. Part 3. We did not have it in us to write a full issue this week, but we...
Only Children, Anne Tryhardaway, and Shade Street Kitchen
November 5, 2016
Dames Nation, we know some of you are going to read this opening and think “Ugh, Dame Margaret is talking about her personal hero John HodgmanAGAIN?...
Hillary Clinton and Hardworking Imperfection
November 4, 2016
Written about the 2016 U.S. election, tragically still relevant to the 2020 U.S. Election :(
Sports for Non-Sportsers, Cephalopods, & Tinglers for All
October 29, 2016
Salutations, Dames Nationals!! Not sure about your wandwork there, Richard, but our hearts sure are levitating.As those of you in the United States are...
Soup Shibboleths & Synergy
October 21, 2016
Hello Dames and Damettes! We are Maris and Rachel, friends and internet book nerds who look sort of alike but not as alike as a lot of people seem to think....
Terrible Twos!
October 15, 2016
016 just keeps on 2016ing, doesn’t it?We are on record wishing to cancel it as early as THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY, and we cannot say we’ve warmed to it much...
#Hamildames Part Deux: Electric Tweetaloo
October 8, 2016
Dames Nation! Gather ‘round the glowing image-box! It’s time for another live-tweet! This time, we bring you, via the magic of American Public Broadcasting,...
Serial Monogamists of Making Stuff
September 30, 2016
Dames Nation! We’re Katrina and Jess, Serial Monogamists of Making Stuff. Today, we want to boss the internet about what that means. We boss each other...
Look Around, Look Around, At How Lucky You Are To Have Dames Right Now
September 24, 2016
Dames Nation, Did You KNOW....That in addition to being the most wonderful time of the year for your Dames, who love nothing more than to throw a cozy scarf...
Gather Round The GBBO Hot Takes Chafing Dish
September 11, 2016
We have some delicious (if terribly sad) thoughts for you When the news came this week that The Great British Bake-Off was leaving its ancestral home at the...
Good As Hell Tween Edition
September 10, 2016
Welcome to Freshtown, Dames Nation. Your mayor would like to introduce herself. You know Your Dames love a quality self-esteem jam, and we bless, from the...
Oy, enough already with the poodles!
September 10, 2016
Gather Round The GBBO Hot Takes Chafing Dish, Dames Nation! We have some delicious (if terribly sad) thoughts for you When the news came this week that The...
Forever and Always Committed to Fetch and Fluff
September 3, 2016
Hiiiiiii again frieeeeendsssssssss!! We, your Dames, are finally back, after a highly restorative and-- in Dame M’s case-- pretty live-changing two-week...
Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont
August 26, 2016
Dames on dames on glamorous dames on dames, as far as the eye can see! Julia really wants these glasses. Also the hot dog. Hi! We are Julia and Adam, and the...
Croquembouche Monsieur
August 12, 2016
Well, Dames Nation, you DO have us pegged, Because that was the exact face we made while reading Sarah Gailey's exquisite piece of #Damesbait, "In Defense of...
Phanatical Philadelphia, Phantom Toolbooths, & Praise of Dandies
August 6, 2016
ames Nation. Are you wondering WHY the Philly Phanatic is dancing today?EASY! It’s because he’s SO EXCITED that Dame Margaret is coming to The Philadelphia...
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