Rhaina Cohen

📚 bestselling author of THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
🎧 producer/editor @NPREmbedded
@NEHgov Public Scholar
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[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

I'm so jazzed to share that I'm writing a book!

Nearly 2 years ago, I began interviewing people who've built their life around a friendship. Their stories changed how I think about the possibilities of relationships & families. I'm grateful that I get to keep listening & writing

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about what it's like for your most important relationship to be one that few people understand + what everyone else can learn about intimacy and partnership from these unusually close friendships https://t.co/h4iNDAhwn7

[Cloe Shasha Brooks @Cloe_Shasha]

Some people have the power to shift a cultural narrative. @rhainacohen is one of those people. It was a very special experience to work with her on this #TED Talk about friendship. Published today: https://t.co/YydBh5MrEi, @TEDTalks, @TEDNews

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

@Cloe_Shasha @TEDTalks @TEDNews 😭 Thank you for giving me the literal stage to share these ideas!

[Sigal Samuel @SigalSamuel]

How can you know if you truly want to have kids?

Is it even something *knowable*?

I make an unconventional argument in today's @voxdotcom advice column!

https://t.co/nhpDavDeor

With shoutouts to @a_n_a_berg @rachelcwiseman @rhainacohen & existentialist Jose Ortega y Gasset!

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

This is an extraordinary piece of journalism

[Caroline Kitchener @CAKitchener]

Patience Frazier was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to up to 8 years in prison for trying to end a pregnancy.

I investigated her prosecution, brought under a 1911 abortion law — and the intensely personal emotions that fueled it. https://t.co/rjH7Z4hUQG

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

Yes yes yes to this. I grew up in a townhouse in the suburbs. There were lots of kids on the block to play with, one benefit of higher density housing. And now, my dream is to buy adjacent townhouses with friends https://t.co/2XH0wBz5vW

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

It was an honor to testify yesterday before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Technology, Privacy, and the Law.

Short 🧵 on my testimony:

[sarah @sarahradz_]

You don't need grad school or Europe or yoga or microdosing, you need this

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

Really excited for this conversation! I loved Lilly's book.

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

This column feels like a IRL conversation with Sigal — thoughtful, unapologetically nerdy and filled with insights from a wide range of philosophers and religions

[Sigal Samuel @SigalSamuel]

It's here!!! Today I launched a new philosophical advice column at @voxdotcom

This is not your bubbe's advice column! Here's a short 🧵about what makes it very different from others

https://t.co/B63MwZdx0q

[Rachael Rifkin @Letters2Ruthie]

Nuclear families are no longer the predominant family in the US. https://t.co/WGUMGpWtC1

@DianaAdamsEsq @rhainacohen @livenearfriends @RemodeledLove @ancestralhab

#community #communal #communalliving #ittakesavillage #village #polyamory #livenearfriends #nuclearfusionapp

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

@SigalSamuel agreed

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

Over the 2010s, ideas crystallized that real social change would come only from mass protest and collective pressure. Individual action became seen at best as unproductive—at worst, a harmful distraction.

I wrote an essay about why I've changed my mind:

https://t.co/KTozQgGMWf

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

still thinking about this from the new Robert Putnam interview

[Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs]

.@roseveleth has been following this story for more than 10 years. They pitched it to various outlets for EIGHT years until BOTH the CBC and NPR said yes. I deeply admire what Rose did here. They knew this story needed to be told and never let it go.

https://t.co/Va4f69a6ZL

[Literary Hub @lithub]

Zoë Eisenberg and @rhainacohen on writing about intimate friendships: “I’m aware that I am very romantic in my friendships.”
https://t.co/z3CnlImJnB

[Julie Beck @julieebeck]

if you've had an interesting or unique friendship struggle or success, or an experience you think is emblematic of The State of Friendship Today and you would be willing to talk to me about it for my book, my DMs are open, please reach out! More info below:

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

My op-ed in @washingtonpost about creating legal alternatives to marriage is practically a companion piece for the profile of those friends https://t.co/o46QBgjfFd

[Rhaina Cohen @rhainacohen]

My op-ed in @wash legal alternatives for marriage is practically a companion piece for the profile of those friends! https://t.co/o46QBgiHPF

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

New piece from Tasha McCauley and me, on the connection between why the OpenAI board decided to fire Sam and recent debates about whether the AI industry needs outside oversight.

(Believe it or not, we had basically finished writing this before the last couple weeks of news)