To Breed or Not to Breed?

Like many professional women, Ms. Middaugh, the lawyer in San Diego, put off having children through her 20s and 30s as she built her career and grappled with student loans. When she was around 36, however, she decided it was time to act. She and her husband had a difficult time conceiving, so they began…

Love Letter: Breaking Up With Mr. Right

When Jessica Slice, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, first started dating David, a man who had embraced her and her disability, she began to feel suffocated by his thoughtful gestures and nurturing nature. But when she ended things, she became filled with more doubt about her decision with each passing day. [Like…

Von Dutch and the Conquest of Cool

Getty Images; Courtesy of Hulu Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Paris Hilton, one of the most prominent Von Dutch wearers in the label’s heyday, is asked at one point in the Hulu miniseries The Curse of Von Dutch if she would ever re-wear their pieces. “Probably…

‘The Odds Were Stacked Against Us’

Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.” “We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and circumstantial odds were stacked against us,” said Mx. Reynolds, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral courtesy titles and pronouns. Ms. Wilson was facing an internal battle that…