Kathryn Jezer-Morton
@kjezermorton.bsky.social
I write the column Brooding for The Cut
Book coming in 2026 from Viking
Book coming in 2026 from Viking
Stop texting me www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Fellow Parents, May I Please Text Less?
Incessant phone contact is a form of maternal self-soothing. Enough!
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June 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Stop texting me www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Jony Ive is like evil Bon Iver
May 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Jony Ive is like evil Bon Iver
Impressed that this piece was up for a full 10 hours before someone mentioned calling social services in the comments. America is growing up 🥹 www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Happy Mother’s Day to the Moms Who Love to Party
Going out makes us more alive to the joys of home life.
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May 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Impressed that this piece was up for a full 10 hours before someone mentioned calling social services in the comments. America is growing up 🥹 www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Today my 11 year old was like, does the F in F Scott Fitzgerald stand for “fuck”?
May 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today my 11 year old was like, does the F in F Scott Fitzgerald stand for “fuck”?
last evening my family and I were walking past my childhood home as a guy was coming out the front door. I stopped and said "I grew up here" and he was like "cool" and then he got into his new Audi and left. He should have invited me in to look around right?
April 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
last evening my family and I were walking past my childhood home as a guy was coming out the front door. I stopped and said "I grew up here" and he was like "cool" and then he got into his new Audi and left. He should have invited me in to look around right?
Go Habs go ❤️💙🤍
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Go Habs go ❤️💙🤍
My family is cursed… is yours? Sound off in the comments!
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
What’s the Power of a Family Curse?
In today’s fantasies of family optimization, there is almost nothing that can’t be scrubbed out or nurtured into submission. Almost.
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April 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My family is cursed… is yours? Sound off in the comments!
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Euro Deli slice with a lil Caesar salad à côté
I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again
April 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Euro Deli slice with a lil Caesar salad à côté
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It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.
April 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
Because tomorrow is tax day I was thinking about my late father's best friend, Randy Kehler, who refused to pay federal income taxes as an act of protest. I hadn't heard he died last summer. What an inspiration Randy was and should continue to be! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/u...
Randy Kehler, 80, Dies; Peace Activist Inspired Release of Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg was so moved by Mr. Kehler’s opposition to the Vietnam War that he decided to leak documents that changed the course of the conflict.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Because tomorrow is tax day I was thinking about my late father's best friend, Randy Kehler, who refused to pay federal income taxes as an act of protest. I hadn't heard he died last summer. What an inspiration Randy was and should continue to be! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/u...
I heard that song “bittersweet symphony” the other day and suddenly knew exactly what it would feel like to be a rich democratic candidate riding public transit for the first time in their life
April 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I heard that song “bittersweet symphony” the other day and suddenly knew exactly what it would feel like to be a rich democratic candidate riding public transit for the first time in their life
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SECOND LIFE "treats digital culture and the internet as it is: a character in our lives, deserving of our sharpest critical engagement, but also part of how we make ourselves at home in the world" - thank you @kjezermorton.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/seco...
Amanda Hess Unpacks Parenting in the Digital Age
The author of the tender and funny memoir Second Life understands why you got emotionally attached to your pregnancy-tracking app.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
SECOND LIFE "treats digital culture and the internet as it is: a character in our lives, deserving of our sharpest critical engagement, but also part of how we make ourselves at home in the world" - thank you @kjezermorton.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/seco...
Spoke to a bunch of parents about Adolescence www.thecut.com/article/netf...
The Dangerous-Son Problem
Netflix’s Adolescence has upped the panic over teen boys’ internet brain rot.
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April 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Spoke to a bunch of parents about Adolescence www.thecut.com/article/netf...
Hell yeah
March 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Hell yeah
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Every person with a working brain should be chilled to the bone by the government’s illegal capture and disappearing of this man. And every educator who works on a college campus should be enraged at this institutional cowardice and ready acquiescence.
This took less than a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
actionnetwork.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Every person with a working brain should be chilled to the bone by the government’s illegal capture and disappearing of this man. And every educator who works on a college campus should be enraged at this institutional cowardice and ready acquiescence.
all the talk about the attention economy etc misses the part about social media being a disciplinary technology, in terms of people's habits tastes behaviours. the book i'm writing is about this and i'm almost finished the first draft
March 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
all the talk about the attention economy etc misses the part about social media being a disciplinary technology, in terms of people's habits tastes behaviours. the book i'm writing is about this and i'm almost finished the first draft
The Florida Project is amazing too. Respect to Sean Baker
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Florida Project is amazing too. Respect to Sean Baker
Wrote about why gender reveals are not about gender www.thecut.com/article/broo...
How Does ‘Big-Reveal’ Content Shape Our Family Stories?
To “prove” that “real stuff” is “happening,” we transform ordinary life into something splashier online.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Wrote about why gender reveals are not about gender www.thecut.com/article/broo...
/r/PhotoshopRequest is a poignant place
February 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
/r/PhotoshopRequest is a poignant place
in like the 1998 congressional campaign Bernie's opponents made bumper stickers that said 'Bye Bye Bernie' and so Bernie's campaign made "response" ones that said "Aye Aye! Bernie!" My dad had one on his Subaru Impreza and I found it a bit cringe. In fact in retrospect I still kinda do.
February 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
in like the 1998 congressional campaign Bernie's opponents made bumper stickers that said 'Bye Bye Bernie' and so Bernie's campaign made "response" ones that said "Aye Aye! Bernie!" My dad had one on his Subaru Impreza and I found it a bit cringe. In fact in retrospect I still kinda do.
french people like to snack on the end bit of their baguette on the walk home from the boulangerie and that's how i am chugging a lacroix while carrying the box home
February 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
french people like to snack on the end bit of their baguette on the walk home from the boulangerie and that's how i am chugging a lacroix while carrying the box home
has photoshopping family photos become the norm? sincere question thanks
February 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
has photoshopping family photos become the norm? sincere question thanks
It was cool when last night Canada beat the US in overtime during the big hockey game
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It was cool when last night Canada beat the US in overtime during the big hockey game
First time in the history of humanity that being poor is being used as an excuse for not partying… capitalism is winning kids and you’re letting it
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Young people are being ‘priced out of nightlife’
Turns out Gen Z aren’t boring – we’re just poor ❤️
www.dazeddigital.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First time in the history of humanity that being poor is being used as an excuse for not partying… capitalism is winning kids and you’re letting it
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Anyway that desire seems really powerful and I think it explains a lot of the dumb shit people do
I don't think people who throw gender reveal parties care about the fetus' sex at all. In fact I think these events have nothing whatsoever to do with gender essentialism. It's just a convenient way to make a "surprise" happen at a party. People just want something to "happen". That is all
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Anyway that desire seems really powerful and I think it explains a lot of the dumb shit people do