Two Bossy Dames

Cool As A Cucumber Thoughts About Harry Styles’ New Song

December 7, 2019

It's The Anti-SAD Jam We Need And Deserve

Harry & The Heartbreakers

December 7, 2019

Oh Dames Nation. December came HARD for the Northeast this past week. Live footage of Your Dames, scrambling and stumbling their way through last week. We...

Jane & Margaret & YOU!

December 2, 2019

Hello, Dames Nationals! We hope that those of you in the U.S. had a wonderful holiday weekend, and that those of you elsewhere in the world had a wonderful...

Pre-Thanksgiving Ughhhh

November 23, 2019

(not the real title) (lololol too late it is now)

Treasures In A Trash Week

November 16, 2019

Dames Classic: Let's Talk About Gloomvember In which Your Dames share a relevant rerun in the opening segment! (A visual representation of what it's been...

Research Extravaganza!

November 8, 2019

Gettin' Boolean with it

Paper Television

November 2, 2019

Dames Nationals, today we received news that left us feeling… well, exactly as follows: What news, you ask? Merely the news that Lionsgate has purchased the...

Trust Us and Trust Your Sisters

$ · October 26, 2019

Hello, Dames Nationals!! It’s been a while since we shared a This Week in Hamilton, but! King George celebrating the fact that we’re back, like before How...

Weren't Much To Look At, Just a Free Ramblin' Man

October 25, 2019

Hello, Dames Nationals! Tonight’s issue is subscriber only, but we wanted to send everyone a small, tasty morsel related to its content: Bonnie Raitt singing...

Should ALL Pasta Just Be Pappardelle?

October 19, 2019

That has nothing to do with anything else in this email, it just felt like a question that DEMANDED answers

Quantum Doppelgängers

October 12, 2019

Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetimes, guest editors Kate Racculia and Kathryn VanArendonk stepped into the Two Bossy Dames...

Got a Problem? Yo, We'll Solve It

$ · October 9, 2019

We'll have a go, at least

Bossy Shouting: Anker Power Banks

$ · October 9, 2019

In June, The Cut published an essay by Lisa Miller that’s been stuck in my craw ever since. Bearing the title “Men Know It’s Better to Carry Nothing”, Miller...

Cel-e-brate! Five! Years, Come On!

October 4, 2019

Happy Newsletter Birthday To Us All! Dames Nation, did you know that we launched this newsletter from our hearts to yours exactly five years ago this week?...

Open Thread: The Best of Dames Nation

October 4, 2019

This week is Two Bossy Dames’ fifth birthday! We love to write this newsletter for you all, and kind of can’t believe it’s been five whole Earth years...

Movies & Noodles Please!

September 27, 2019

Meet your new OTP

Into the Spider-Thread!

September 22, 2019

Welcome, Spider-Dames! At 7:30 PM EST, we shall convene here to collectively watch and kvell over Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, objectively the best...

Obstructionist Umbrellas & Other Marvels

September 21, 2019

Hello, Dames Nationals!! Meet the Twitter account that consumed our morning (with joy): Soviet Soldiers Dancing, where archival footage of dancing Soviet...

Catch Yerself On!

September 14, 2019

We open this week’s newsletter with two serious works of art, one short form, one feature-length. Short form: this video of Alex Trebek pronouncing the word...

Raised On Promises

September 7, 2019

...of cultural gems within

Bossy Shouting: The Harold Herald

August 28, 2019

Extra! Extra! Our Boy Is Extremely Extra! (Same!)

Scandalous Wives & Highlights from Tunes Corner

August 24, 2019

Hello, Dames Nation! Come take one last spin with us this summer! Pinned to our vision board for next weekend We will be fully out of office next Friday...

Crowning Glories

$ · August 17, 2019

A announcement for which We Your Dames have waited with ill grace has, at long last, arrived: The Crown’s third season finally has a release date— November...

Bossy Shouting: Derry Girls

August 14, 2019

Friendship is Magic (Yes, Again!) Season 2 of Derry Girls arrived on Netflix last week, so we’re running an expanded version of Dame Sophie’s enthusiastic...

Aaaand, We're Back!

August 10, 2019

Hello, friends. A great light has gone out. From Morrison’s incredibly concise elucidation of racism for Charlie Rose in 1993 Toni Morrison died on Tuesday...

Sharing, Caring, Every Little Thing That We Are Wearing

August 3, 2019

While your OG Bossy Dames enjoy some well-earned R&R, previous guest Dame Kerry (aka President for Life of the Margaret H. Willison fan club) and her beloved...

USNWT Spectacular

August 1, 2019

As you may recall from a previous issue, Your Dames were swept along on a tide of athletic national pride a few weeks ago thanks to the outstanding...

Erudite As We Wanna Be

July 27, 2019

Get ready for some 21st century linguistics!!!

It's MUCH Better Than Cats

July 20, 2019

You'll want to see it again and again

We Deserve This

July 13, 2019

Hello, Fellow Rapinoe Crush-Sufferers! Your Dames aren’t really soccer people, but like the rest of America, we were swept away by the unanswerable...

Abbrieviated Holiday Special Edition

July 5, 2019

We had planned, Dames Nation, to take this Friday-between-July-4th-and-the-weekend off, as is our God Given Right. But then I, Dame Margaret, (1) had to work...

Lesser Known Pop Deities & Surprise Athletes

June 29, 2019

Hello, Dames Nation! Dame Margaret is running things solo this week as Dame Sophie is being a grown-up about her migraines and treating herself to some...

Broads On Board

June 22, 2019

(For All Kinds of Nonsense)

School's Out; Allergies In

June 15, 2019

Just imagine Your Dames as tiny little extras singing along to Alice CooperUghhhh, school’s out but you know what’ still in? ALLERGIES. In our sinuses &...

Tony Awards Open Thread!

June 9, 2019

A place where all denizens of Dames Nation can gather and kvell over the 2019 Tony Awards. Conversation starter: what, in your opinion, are some of the most...

NEW: Open Thread for the Tonys Tonight

June 9, 2019

We’re trying something new for tonight’s Tony Awards livetweet! In addition to chatting with our Twitter-enabled subscribers using the hashtag #TonyDames,...

Jump(suit) to the End

June 8, 2019

Summer has officially arrived in the Northeast of America, and we have two facts that prove it. Item the First: Dame Margaret is finishing this week’s email...

Livetweet Announcement: Watch the Tonys with Your Dames

June 5, 2019

This Sunday at 8 PM EST! Be there, be there, be there!

The Last Thing I'm Doing...

$ · June 1, 2019

...Before Watching ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE

Bossy Shouting: Fleabag Season Two

May 29, 2019

How To Get Everyone You Know To Watch & Howl About This Dang Show Already

Bossy Shouting: Nothing Compares 2 U

$ · May 24, 2019

Hello, Damespals!! As we head into roadtrip season I, Dame Margaret, would like to point you in the direction of a particularly excellent podcast episode...

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

May 24, 2019

While We Your Dames observe the long weekend and formal commencement of White Shoe Szn, there will be no full newsletter this week! Our paying subscribers...

Subscriber Special: YouTube Dramz

$ · May 22, 2019

Yes, yes, we’ll cop to it. We couldn’t tear ourselves away, honestly Two weeks ago, the Internet was riveted by a major fracas within YouTube’s beauty...

Jespmas & Its Discontents

May 18, 2019

In yet another brutal week here in the US of A, we are so relieved to have one truly joyous sentiment with which to open this newsletter: MERRY CARLY RAE...

A Smashing Gang

May 11, 2019

Greetings, Dames Nation! We are Ally and Amy, co-instigators of #girlgang. We are endlessly happy to be asked back by our beloved Dames, though we look a...

Royal Cele-bébé-retory Update

$ · May 6, 2019

Ce-le-bébé good times, come on!

Home Comforts & Science Yelling

May 4, 2019

Dispatches From The Heartbreads of A Dame & A Hottie

Sordid Royals & Assorted Sunnies

$ · April 27, 2019

Dames Nation, it’s the end of an era, or at least Phases 1-3 of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. As Dr. Strange said: We are presently living in fear of Chris...

Two Trashy Dames

April 19, 2019

Hello! As longtime members of Dames Nation (we remember when it was but a delightful hashtag), we are thrilled to be your guest editrixes this week. We're...

Greyjoy Lovejoy Almond Joy

April 13, 2019

Hello, Residents of the Two Dames Kingdoms! Game of Thrones addressing the rest of the media landscape. As you may have guessed from our decision to schedule...