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Sheila Moeschen

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The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy

The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy

Beautifully illustrated showcase of fifty women—past and present—who use comedy to shake the status quo and make humor history.

2019

Sheila Moeschen

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Sheila Moeschen

Pop Culture-pa-looza: Join us for Medium Day!

Hey Friends!

2 min readAug 9, 2023

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Pop Culture-pa-looza: Join us for Medium Day!

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Pour One Out for Saturday-Morning Cartoons

My older brother routinely harassed and mildly terrorized me, as older siblings are hardwired to do. But he did give me one gift: he slept…

4 min readJan 27, 2023

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Pour One Out for Saturday-Morning Cartoons

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Girl, You Better Work!: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Gets Serious About Comedy

As I was watching season four of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I kept thinking of an episode of Louie (Louis C.K’s show) where he meets Joan…

8 min readJul 8, 2022

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Girl, You Better Work!: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Gets Serious About Comedy

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There’s No Crying in Pottery!

A grown man crying over ceramics? Yes. Please.

5 min readMay 6, 2022

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There’s No Crying in Pottery!

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We Don’t Talk About Yoko-Ono-No-No

It’s been six months since I watched Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary, Get Back, and I can’t stop thinking about Yoko Ono.

6 min readApr 11, 2022

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Have Some Holly Jolly Racism: A Deep Dive into “Do They Know It’s Christmas”

The story behind the music

8 min readDec 23, 2021

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Have Some Holly Jolly Racism: A Deep Dive into “Do They Know It’s Christmas”

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Putting the Hip in Hippo

In the 1980s a plucky sociopath named Pablo Escobar was at the height of his murderous tyranny as Colombia’s preeminent drug czar. No doubt…

7 min readDec 7, 2021

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Putting the Hip in Hippo

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Splash: Not Your Average Boy-Meets-Fish Rom-com

Almost every weekend, my Mom dropped me and a friend off at the local movie theatre, The Tri-Cinema. Not one of those cool, historical…

10 min readAug 31, 2021

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Splash: Not Your Average Boy-Meets-Fish Rom-com

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The Revolution Will Be Unusual: Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”

The field of early-80s pop music was littered with artists packaged up and sold like the kinds of action figures I played with…

8 min readJul 29, 2021

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The Revolution Will Be Unusual: Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”

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“Tired of Playing the Game”: The Feminism of Lili Von Shtupp

Not helicopter parents, not coma parents, my parents were more like casting agent parents: don’t call us, we’ll call you. It was the…

6 min readJun 24, 2021

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Sheila Moeschen

Sheila Moeschen

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Writer, photographer. Author: Forthcoming book in 2024: Boston Road Trips (Globe Pequot) & out now-League of Extraordinarily Funny Women (Running Press)

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