Trigger warning for grooming and violence. Interrupted girlhood has occupied a lot of space in pop culture lately, first with the recent publication of Britney Spears’ memoir The Woman In Me, and this week with Priscilla, the newly-released Sofia Coppola movie based on Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and…

“Not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.” It is a story we often hear when an explorer attempts to do something that has never been done. In fact, it’s a parable almost as old as time. It’s one we’ve seen in attempts to reach…

Jann Wenner’s words — and actions — expose decades-long toxic gatekeeping in rock music. An interview published in The New York Times on September 15th featured Jann Wenner, founder of the boomer mainstay Rolling Stone magazine and co-founder (and now former board member, as he was fired — you’ll see…

The film adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s Elvis and Me promises to subtly reveal the horror behind the majesty of Graceland. Minor spoilers for the book Elvis and Me. When I first read Elvis and Me, written by Priscilla Presley with Sandra Harmon, I was 14. I reveled in its descriptions…

Two women pilots — both talented, but only one can reign in space. Or so this story has been told. Jacqueline Cochran may have been the most decorated record-breaking pilot (not just as a woman pilot, but as a pilot, period), but one story about her life and career tends…

The death of an iconoclast and the Barbie movie underscore gendered impossibilities. Trigger warning: there are mentions of suicide in this article. One of the greatest voices of our time — scratch that, any time — is gone at the age of 56. Sinéad O’Connor’s first two albums, The Lion…

The Titan submersible tragedy reminds us that exploration will always be fraught with unknown — and known — risks. Trigger warning: this article discusses several engineering tragedies. On Monday, news broke that the Titan submersible — billed as a Cyclops-class human submersible capable of exploring sea depths to approximately 4,000…

NASA dreamed of building a spaceship that lifted off like a rocket and landed like a plane. However, not everyone was on board. The article by David Zinman of Newsday that was reprinted in the August 22, 1971 edition of the Orlando Sentinel began with almost breathless, sci-fi prose: It…

A new photo book shines a light upon the Mercury Project, 60+ years young. In 2019 when Apollo 11 50th anniversary mania was underway, space photo historian J.L. Pickering received a phone call that would kickstart his latest project alongside co-author John Bisney: the son-in-law of legendary NASA photographer William…