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April 6, 2019

Dames Nationals! Spring Tunez Season is Finally Upon Us! SHIMMY SZN!!!! Celebrate by dancing to this custom Spotify playlist We Your Dames put together to...

Bossy Business Announcement!

April 6, 2019

HELLO, free subscribers to Two Bossy Dames! We have news of interest to you! As they say on the infomercials, these prices won’t last forever! Starting on...

High Key and Hay Feverish

$ · March 30, 2019

Breaking: Your Dames Have A New Playlist For Your Darling (Ear)buds of May! You know how we love to create a thematic playlist. We decided it was time to...

Rails & Getting Railed

March 23, 2019

WELCOME, Dames Nationals!!! Sophie has had a gruelling week, so our Top Tier #damespal Christina has stepped in to edit the newsletter with Margaret this...

Déjà Voodoo

March 16, 2019

Hello Dames Nation! We are Anna and Alene, the Bellwether Friends! We share our thoughts every few weeks on our eponymous podcast, where we speak...

Pop Goes Our Hearts

March 9, 2019

Hello, Beloved DamesPals! We come bearing further glad tidings about Our Queen! Only one week after singing her praises for personal growth and elegant...

Shawl Vaults & Cashmere Thoughts

March 2, 2019

Dames Nationals, Rolling Stone and Rob Sheffield have given us a real gift this week: a truly excellent interview with Stevie Nicks to mark her second...

Icons, Awards, & EMOTIONS

$ · February 23, 2019

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Grief and Its Discontents

February 16, 2019

Hey Dames Fans! It’s Jessica Reedy and Kat Chow here for today’s take over of Two Bossy Dames. *Troy McClure voice* You might remember us from such NPR...

Whatever the Mess You Are, You're Mine, Okay?

February 9, 2019

HELLO, Dames Nation! Dame Sophie— in the wake executing of a highly successful work conference - is taking a well-deserved week off, meaning that Dame...

Draped in Furs, Exuding Glamour

February 2, 2019

From the frigid Northeast of America, Dames Nation, we greet you! Fittingly enough for the brutal cold snap much of the U.S. is suffering from this week, our...

Perfect a Concert & Kill a Cold

$ · January 26, 2019

Dames Nation, it appears that Amazon has heard our incessant clamoring! PLAYING HOUSE, one of our foundational favorite television shows, shouted about JUST...

LIVETWEET ANNOUNCEMENT! Moonlight, February 10th

January 25, 2019

HELLO, Dames Nation! Our main email today is for paying subscribers only, but! We wanted to be sure that everyone in the Nation got our next Livetweet on...

Your Joy Quotient Should Only Go One Direction

January 19, 2019

Bon jour Dames Nation! It is we, matriarchs of another nation, the Adult Fans of One Direction, aka AFOOD Nation, Cassie Niespodziewanski and Candice...

Ham Sandwiches for One and All!

January 12, 2019

Greetings, Dames Nation! Get ready to discover a fresh way to delight in Melissa McCarthy! She has been a favorite actor of ours for Lo, These Many Years--...

Dames for What Ails You

January 5, 2019

Welcome to 2019, Dames Nationals! We hope your last weeks of 2018 were restful, refreshing, and full of quality time with some of your very best-loved...

Your Favourites' Favorites

$ · December 22, 2018

Suit Up, Dames Nation And strap in for a bit of shouting about the SHEER PERFECTION that is the trailer for Men in Black: International. As noted fanatics of...

Want to find out Your Dames' 2018 Favs?

December 21, 2018

Hello, Dames Nationals! A quick head’s up— in tonight’s issue, we’re going to do our best Maria Von Trapp impression and name some of our favorite things of...

Two Bossy Docents

December 15, 2018

We’re Maggie and Laura: librarians, coworkers, friends. And maybe most importantly, docents. Laura and Maggie, Docents Extraordinaires! After a grueling six...

Banquettes, Pens, and Justice For the Final Sixth!

December 8, 2018

This week, Spotify made its annual “Spotify Wrapped” feature available-- the one which packages up the data it’s collected on your listening habits and hands...

Thank U, Dames

December 1, 2018

FINALLY, after weeks of pretty expert teasing… (The pom-pom flourish equivalent of a drum roll.) ...the official music video for Ariana Grande’s objectively...

Mixtape Memoirs

November 17, 2018

Dame Margaret’s blessed vacation in England gave Dame Sophie the opportunity to smuggle in her most vintage Internet Ladyfriend & past TBD guest editrix,...

A Blue Wave Worthy of Hokusai

November 10, 2018

Well, well, well, Dames Nation. We all did it! O, our prophetic gif selection! GIF by Libby VanderPloeg. The Blue Wave flipped the US House of...

Anecdotal Voting!

November 6, 2018

Hello, Civic-Minded Sprites! Here’s the outcome we’re hoping for with today’s election, courtesy of Libby VanderPloeg. As all of you likely know— for Dames...

Trick Or Treat People With Kindness

November 3, 2018

As we hope you already know, our beloved Queen Carly just released a brand new single, and it is a certified bop. This pair of tweets perfectly express our...

Mastering Travel With Your Best Guest Dames

October 27, 2018

Guest Editors Lisa & Terri, yaaaaaaay! Hello! I'm Lisa Schmeiser -- previously of the woods, recently back from two more trips there, among the seven I've...

Our Personal Criterion Collection

October 20, 2018

I ASSURE YOU THIS IS NOT A DRAFT

Those Tights Are TOIT

October 13, 2018

Hello Sunshines <3 You know what made this garbage week easier to deal with? Something that, if we just said it aloud, might sound like a very gentle Real-...

Anniversaries & Apologies

October 6, 2018

Dames Nationals, as much as We Your Dames have always felt that this sentiment is true & correct: We are willing to make an exception for Saga Vanecek, the...

Faves Supporting Faves

September 29, 2018

It should be needless to say, but: we believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, American Hero. Just as we believed Anita Hill before her, and just as we believe all...

Lean Not On Your Own Understanding

$ · September 22, 2018

You Can Borrow Ours Instead!

October Livetweet Announcement

September 21, 2018

Out of Sight!

Compliments & Complements

September 15, 2018

Hoo boy, Dames Nation. It’s a bummer of a week out there. To deal with the rampant grimness in our national discourse, we’re elevating our newest ~*GUEST...

Jairs & Other Mysteries of Life

September 8, 2018

Cut to: YOUR DAMES, ARMS TRIUMPHANTLY RAISED ABOVE OUR HEADS, ABOUT TO LEAP OFF THE ROOF OF A SMALL SUBURBAN HOME. “THE FACT CHECKERS OF YOUR MAGAZINE...

To All The Dames We've Loved Before (And Still Love Now)

September 1, 2018

Just today, Crazy Rich Asians— a movie more than one producer wanted to white-wash—hit $100 million in domestic box office ticket sales, the most any comedy...

Freaky Friday 2: Still Freakin'

August 24, 2018

Freak Me Baby, One More Time!

We Say A Little Prayer For You

$ · August 18, 2018

Dear Sustaining Members of Dames Nation: Thanks always for keeping us in minks, and welcome to August’s paid-subscriber exclusive issue of TBD! We are...

Coming Attractions!

August 17, 2018

Hello, entirety of Dames Nation! As tonight’s issue of the newsletter is a paid-subscriber exclusive, we wanted to share two important reminders in a...

Miserable McMansions, Turning Tables, & A Plethora of Posters

August 11, 2018

We open with this gif for a number of reasons. First off, we do so because, really, is there ever a bad time to watch Robyn dance? We posit that there is...

Two Sick Glamourpusses

August 3, 2018

Rule One of chronic illness: ask for help when you need it This week, Dame Margaret is off enjoying a lovely lake-based vacation in Minnesota, so our...

A Heart To Heart With Your Guest Dames

July 27, 2018

Kelly and Samantha celebrating the latter’s 25th birthday in 2008 Kelly Davis and Samantha Powell met 17 Septembers ago while freshmen in college. Back then...

Muppets, Spirits, & Other Very Special Guests

July 21, 2018

Greetings, Dames Nationals! We are opening this week’s issue by posing a very thorny question to you. Namely: Cory Taylor@CoryjTaylorYou can replace the cast...

Shoe Bros, Rosé Petals, & Other Petite Joys

July 14, 2018

Oh Dameslings, do we have a treat for you in the opener this week. It’s a story so pure it’s left us entirely this gif for days: It’s the story of two men...