Jen Deaderick

Writing

Speech from the Massachusetts Rally Against the War on Women
"When we talk about the American Revolution, we tend to focus on the battles, and the whites of their eyes. We're less keen to discuss all the meetings the people building our country had to attend. Tedious meetings that went on for hours and hours over the course of YEARS while people bickered over the wording of every document produced."

A Wonderful Surprise
Huffington Post -Guest Post on Rebecca Walker's blog
"We had been thinking of getting married for a while, but in a theorectical, 'wouldn't it be nice' way. The cells rapidly dividing in my abdomen made the plans urgent and tangible."

Matineer
Movie reviews for Neal Pollack's Offsprung
"About the joys of sitting in a darkened theater, covered in bits of popcorn, feet sticking to the floor while a world unfolds before your eyes."
-- Kit Kittredge
-- Casino Royale
-- The Bank Job
-- 101 Dalmatians
-- Gone, Baby, Gone
-- Juno
-- The Ten Movies I Saw This Year in a Theater
-- Date Night: Joe Strummer
-- I Loved Enchanted, Deal With It