Anne Helen Petersen

I write Culture Study & also books — most recently, OUT OF OFFICE.
Speaking: @prhspeakers
IG: annehelenpetersen // email: annehelenpetersen @ gmail

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Some personal news!

Last week was my last at BuzzFeed News. This week, I’m going full-time w/my newsletter at Substack, where I’ll be writing features, doing interviews & old fashioned blogging & more. You can read about how all of this will work here:

https://t.co/T3J0YUdcd7

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

I haven't tweeted in *a year* but **we do not have to resign ourselves to this future.**

We can, indeed, have an open convention. It seems wild but it is absolutely not, and anyone who doesn't want a Trump presidency should get on board:

https://t.co/1Lek9N1ir0

[Isabel Lara @isalara]

“Is It Too Late To Start Over?” ⁦@npratc⁩ host @ailsachang talked to ⁦@annehelen⁩ for ⁦@CrookedMedia⁩ “Work Appropriate” https://t.co/74f7teFAnE

[audie cornish @AudieCornish]

I got so much out of this post by @annehelen. cutting through the noise of #QuietQuitting #QuietFiring #LoudHiring jargon https://t.co/zLvH3i0DxK

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Do you want to learn how to container garden? Talk about plant stereotypes [why are hostas so preppy]? Figure out groundcover and glare at invasive blackberry? HERE IS THE NEWSLETTER FOR YOU

https://t.co/GQqOEcA43r

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Introducing my new newsletter-within-a-newsletter, my Cup of Jo *but for plants*: GARDEN STUDY

https://t.co/GQqOEcA43r

[Phoebe the Career Coach @betterwphoebe]

I had the pleasure of appearing on the Work Appropriate podcast and spending some time with @annehelen to talk about career reselience and chat through a few listener questions.

Check it out ⬇️
https://t.co/mJtxBbRuSk

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

I loved this very much

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

@katypearce Most of them I know run their own businesses / are independent contractors so they can swing it

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

So many of the professional women I know with even a smidge of financial/career leeway are taking a professional pause for the next few months

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

That, ultimately, is why people in the West are annoyed (and also, I should note, annoyed that they're annoyed). It sucks, it all sucks. But very few workplaces thought to manage w/that understanding until it hit their HQs in New York.

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Just over here still thinking about the take that New Yorkers are freaking out about the smoke because they don't have.....nature

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Anyway this coming summer when this reality lasts for *weeks to months* in the West remember how you feel, remember how hard it is to work, remember the crankiness, and extend some grace

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

"I think contributing, healing, and caring are ambitious. I’ve found there is so much for me to be ambitious about, way beyond the context of accomplishment."

https://t.co/6tnTu7XYGO

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

@DearSplenda Is the solution to change bodies or to change fatphobia, though? She really, really thinks that if we could change all bodies it'd be better

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Deeply dismayed but somehow NOT AT ALL SURPRISED by the normalization of fatphobia in this essay

https://t.co/oheV0OqXOG

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

@Topsy_Tori It makes me so deeply sad

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

Like truly a greatest hits of fatphobia. Her greatest fear is that taking this drug will make it so people don't learn habits of self-discipline!! She is just casually okay with the diarrhea!!!

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

I tweet so rarely these days but I will tweet for this

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

I know that it's hard to understand things when you haven't experienced them personally and yes it's truly shitty but: the West has been dealing with this, it's been horrible, we all need to take it seriously

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

The air quality in New York City is horrifying. Quebec is *400 miles* away but you can smell burning wood in every corner of New York as if it's right here in town. The sky is ominous and post-apocalyptic dark yellow-green. It's so intense that it stings your eyes.