Ej Dickson

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ONE BAD MOTHER by @ejdickson.bsky.social was named one of The Best Books of 2026 So Far by @newyorkermag.

Congratulations, Ej!

Check out the full list:
https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2026

“Disney is a thorn in my side”: for @thecut.com I spoke to people in Disney adult gap relationships — or couples where one person likes Disney way more than the other. As you can see, it’s an extremely specific form of hell. www.thecut.com/article/disn...

Maam u see where she says she fucked and sucked King Kong and curious George

you’re laughing. SNL is slut shaming a vulnerable new mother with mental health issues, and you’re laughing

One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate Amazon.com: One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate: 9781668051115: Dickson, Ej: Books

buy my book if you stand with Punch the monkey's mom #jesuispunchsmom #letabadbitchlive www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Moth...

Punch was born in a heat wave and it's not uncommon for animals to abandon their young under extreme environmental conditions, particularly if they're first-time mothers, but SURE let's SLUT-SHAME a woman with POSTPARTUM MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES on NATIONAL TV

So many people have sent it to me and I have zero idea how to capitalize on it lol

It’s really not that difficult to be anti Zionist without being antisemitic. Somehow progressive Jews manage to do it all the time. And yet a lot of you just can’t seem to figure it out! Weird

I was just thinking about this actually

One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate Amazon.com: One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate: 9781668051115: Dickson, Ej: Books

Hey new followers buy my book!!!!! It’s a deep dive into the bad moms of pop culture, and there are essays about MILF porn, Ballerina Farm, Casey Anthony, Mrs Maisel, Dance Moms, and the time I was a 9-year-old child actor who worked for an agency called Lil Angels www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Moth...

Yea I don’t think you and I disagree on this at all

How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast? Their emails show the lengths Epstein went to get his female “assistants” onscreen.

In emails between Epstein and the young woman, they discuss meeting with DiCerto and giving her a headshot/reel. In the interim, Epstein advises, "watch some porn, learn some new tricks." Later, he invites her to his island.

Full story here, it's honestly nuts: www.thecut.com/article/wood...

A few months later, Epstein asked Soon-Yi to introduce one of the young women who had been an extra on "Wonder Wheel" (whose identity has been redacted) to Woody Allen's casting director, Patricia DiCerto. "Anything for you," she wrote back.

In June 2016, Epstein emailed Woody's wife Soon-Yi about casting his "assistants" in the project that would be "Wonder Wheel," saying he would find it "amusing." Soon-Yi said she would ask him, adding, "Nice to know that he has extras :-)" www.thecut.com/article/wood...

In 2014, according to his emails, Epstein got 3 of his "assistants," including longtime GF Karyna Shuliak, cast as extras in Irrational Man, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. A woman who very much resembles Shuliak appears in a shot in the final cut of the film around the 57:00 mark

How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast? Their emails show the lengths Epstein went to get his female “assistants” onscreen.

Epstein flexed his relationship with Woody Allen to impress friends. He'd write to modeling agents saying Woody was looking for "beautiful girls" to cast, asking to send some his way. And he'd vet them himself, saying they weren't "sexy enough" www.thecut.com/article/wood...

How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast? Their emails show the lengths Epstein went to get his female “assistants” onscreen.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein's close friendship with Woody Allen is well-documented. What's less well-known? Epstein spent years trying to influence Woody Allen's casting process, and got his "girls" cast in at least 2 of Allen's movies. My story for @nymag.com www.thecut.com/article/wood...

The piece argues that Epstein trafficked in Jewishness to uphold power. Jewish people are not Mossad. Also, in addition to Israel he had intelligence ties in the US, Russia, Saudia Arabia, the UAE, and other Middle eastern countries. Hope this helps.

I disagree, I like a lot of their stuff even if I don’t always agree with it. The tone of this was mealy mouthed and the argument sloppily constructed in a way that I found pretty surprising.

But it’s your responsibility as a writer (and one whose work I generally respect) to be concerned about careless readers and to ensure your argument is clear and airtight. And if you’re telling me your argument isn’t “Judaism enabled Epstein,” then it failed in that respect.

This actually perfectly articulates my issue with that piece: despite what TikTok would have you believe, Just Asking Questions is not a legitimate form of academic inquiry, esp when it applies to specific ethnic/racial groups in which case you just sound like Alex Jones ranting about frog assholes

That would’ve been a piece with a very niche audience lol but it’s one I really would have liked to have read instead

I typically like Jewish Currents and I’ve liked a lot of David’s writing so if I had to guess I would say this was very poorly edited but I really don’t know

It sounds like you think you’re very smart so I’ll let you sit with that because I actually have no idea what you’re trying to argue right now

I don’t disagree that Epstein and his relationship to Jewishness are not a valid path of inquiry, and I thought the point you made about how recognizable some of his language is for American Jews was a really good one. But some of the implications being made here are bizarre at best

Yes and then you immediately undercut the point you make in the first SG by talking about how Epstein used the “banal markers of Jewishness” of “ordinary Jews” for his “pernicious ends.” Surely you see how that’s going to be read by careless readers (which you know as well as I do are most readers)

Why is it bizarre? And why is it disingenuous? Klion’s piece doesn’t talk about Israel either. Jews are not synonymous with Israel, as much as perhaps people like you would like us to be.

I happen to agree with him generally (as I do Jewish currents generally) — the claims that antizionism = antisemitism are bullshit and the Epstein-induced antisemitism is far more real and way scarier. But I don’t get why you have to deny that antisemitism *exists* full stop to make that point lol

Made me laugh thank u

I had never heard the term before this piece. It’s a really interesting idea. I absolutely agree that’s what Epstein was doing to some of the ppl in his circle. The emails support that for sure. But yeah, not specific to Jews, and certainly not specific to wealthy Jews!