Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze Disney Will Sell These Rainbow Mouse Ears For LGBT Pride Month
“Micky Mouse Rainbow Love” is not the street name of a club drug. It is the name the Walt Disney Company has assigned the rainbow mouse ears they are now selling in Disney parks. in a ? full of people you’re all i ? thank you @disneyland for a day full of magic, new video,…
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The Schmooze TV Show In The Works Will Interview Men Toppled By #MeToo
If America will watch people compete for a chance to marry a stranger and watch our president’s marriage be slowly unraveled by a cunning porn star, chances are we would watch men who have been accused of or admitted to sexual harassment interview each other. Journalist Tina Brown says she was approached to produce just…
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The Schmooze The Women Reporters Who Broke The Weinstein Story Will Be The Subject Of A Movie
Through his movie production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein told hundreds of stories. Today it was announced that Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B and Megan Ellison’s Anapurna Pictures have secured the rights to make a movie about New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s coverage of the Harvey Weinstein…
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The Schmooze Voice Of Apu On ‘The Simpsons’ May Quit Over Racism Claims
This week Hank Azaria, the Jewish actor who voiced Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for 29 seasons of “The Simpsons” announced that he may step away from the role. But what’s the problem with Apu? What’s the problem with the animated character Apu, a thickly-accented, literally cartoonish convenience store-owner, being one of the only South-Asian characters on American…
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The Schmooze Mia Farrow Wanted Dylan To Keep Quiet About Woody Allen Abuse Claims — At First
At the Time 100 Gala on Tuesday night, Ronan Farrow was honored for reporting that helped uncover the Harvey Weinstein allegations and helped launch the social and political movement, #MeToo. At the event the writer’s mother, actress Mia Farrow, gave a rare comment about her daughter Dylan Farrow’s accusations that her father (and Mia Farrow’s…
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The Schmooze 5 Reasons To Read The Bible — Even Though GQ Says You Shouldn’t
A list of “21 Books You Don’t Have To Read” by GQ seems to exist to give 21 pretentious people the opportunity to describe the specific ways in which they are pretentious. The fact is, there is only one book in the world you absolutely should not read, and that is “Lolita”, a diamond-covered trashcan…
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The Schmooze Rachel Weisz: ‘We Shouldn’t Have To Talk About Women Like They’re Some Endangered Species’
I arrived late at the 92nd Street Y on Monday night, leaping out of my Uber and jogging into the lobby of the historical building, where three separate women were yelling at security guards in the glowing light of flat screens advertising summertime programming. Film star Rachel Weisz was somewhere in the building, waiting to…
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The Schmooze Joshua Kushner Takes Supermodel Girlfriend Karlie Kloss To The Holy Land
Joshua Kushner, the prodigal son of the Kushner family (in the sense that ‘prodigal’ means loosely liberal) the founder of Oscar Health insurance, the man who some see as a modern-day-Moses figure, is currently cavorting around Israel (in the sense that ‘cavorting’ means ‘taking spectacular photos for Instagram’.) A proposal seems imminent. A conversion of…
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