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health and parenting editor, @businessinsider • previously @Allure_magazine • words all over • they/them • rdonahue @businessinsider .com

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@rosadona
rosemary donahue
4 years
emotionally, if the corner of my fitted sheet pops up one more time, i will die
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3 years
it’s just like, we’re dealing w too much right now already, yknow
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4 years
do you say "excuse me" to your pet when you walk by them or are you rude
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3 years
“no one has to tell ME not to say the F-word” energy
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4 years
i wanted to make a joke about the boat but it looks like that ship has sailed
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4 years
normalize taking time off work for your mental health — not just when it becomes an emergency and you can’t work anymore, but when you have a feeling in your gut that you really need to rest for a minute
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2 years
why do people only ever monger fear or fish
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4 years
a friendly reminder that it's free to talk with your fellow workers about how much money you make 😊
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3 years
i feel like this is just a more straightforward way of saying “Five Guys”
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4 years
workin 9 to 9 and still can’t get that cost-of-living
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4 years
stop asking “is everything okay?” start asking “is anything okay?”
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4 years
people’s periods syncing up was the first bluetooth technology
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7 months
for anyone watching the traitors who isnt familiar with CT i just need you to understand
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4 years
just had the thought “i want a roommate but only sometimes” so basically i just invented having a friend over
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4 years
tell people you love and appreciate them, even if it makes you feel like a big sap. get specific. talk about the weird shit only they do that makes you laugh or feel special. the good energy it brings into the world is 10 times more powerful than the effort it took to create.
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4 years
help
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2 years
today i had a nosebleed in an elevator with a RHONY cast member and she said “i’m a nurse, not just a housewife — put pressure on the bridge of your nose” from now on, anytime i give anyone advice that’s even remotely medical i’m gonna say “i’m a nurse, not just a housewife”
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3 years
pov i am 33 and you are wishing me happy birthday
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4 years
back in june in NYC when the curfew was 8 PM, a protestor i was standing by asked a cop, "what happens at 8?" and the cop responded, "we beat your ass" just a memory!
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4 years
just thought you should see it
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4 years
today has real *several people are typing* energy
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rosemary donahue
4 years
shows like emily in paris, younger, and the bold type are just proof that people who work in media and want to get out should start writing for TV because clearly there’s an audience for it and people who don’t really know how it works are making it rn 😬
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3 years
TW: sexual assault so, i was sexually assaulted about a year and a half ago by someone i had very casually been seeing, and three weeks ago tonight, i met with him to confront him about it IRL. i did it on my terms, in public and with friends nearby for safety.
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4 years
canceling my next therapy appointment to just watch “drywall tiktok”
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2 years
@offbeatorbit i can’t stop replaying it
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rosemary donahue
5 years
cancel rent, stay inside, donate money if you can, call your friends, wash your hands, take deep breaths, vote for bernie, drink water, remember to take your meds if you take any, relax your shoulders, tell me if you have a crush on me,
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5 years
fun quarantine activity — color in your tattoos
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4 years
emily showing up wearing the eiffel tower on a shirt on her first day of work and giving a lecture about social media when she only has 48 followers has absolutely killed me
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4 years
You (2018)
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2 years
got the news yesterday that they got all the cancer in my double mastectomy and didn’t find any more in the lymph node they removed. knowing my BRCA status allowed me to be proactive and get regular mammograms and sonograms to catch my cancer early, and i’m so thankful.
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3 years
that joke about men getting lost and not being able to ask for directions but it’s about CEOs and instead of driving in circles and pretending they’re getting somewhere they just keep calling it “pivoting”
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4 years
help
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4 years
SATC is magical realism, in this same episode carrie says her apartment is $750/month
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rosemary donahue
3 years
this tree said, “i fucking love spring but i still have depression, two things can be true at once”
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1 year
@laracroftbarbie an entire cabinet just for your water supplies
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2 years
things are pretty grim, and i’d love to work with writers on some happy queer and trans stories for Insider. rates vary depending on scope but average about $250 for 700ish words. send me a pitch at rdonahue @insider .com (no DMs, please!) ❤️
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4 years
me hanging on to the last bit of strength i have left this year
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4 years
parasite is on hulu today :)
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4 years
wat
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@moongrudge i found this one on the street about a year and a half ago, it was in bad shape — cut the taller one off because it was dying and put it in the white pot, it’s grown a few feet since then, and the smaller one has sprouted these skinny arms
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3 years
i've only really asked close friends to use they/them for me and have avoided saying anything publicly aside from changing an email signature or bio, thinking i'd only do it when she/her started to feel weird, and it's starting to feel weird, so please use they/them thx
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rosemary donahue
4 years
thread: protestors in new orleans are blocking the court that handles evictions, and it now appears to be closed for the day :')
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Demonstrators protesting evictions have blocked off both enteranxes to first city court, which handles evictions on the east bank for rents less than $3000 (most New Orleans evictions)
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4 years
watching this season of the bachelorette solely for the upcoming scene where clare's bachelors apparently form a union and go on strike
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4 years
this is very easy to do!
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4 years
something i would love to talk about is the complicated version of grief that is grieving a family member you’ve not talked to for a while because of their harmful views and how to support other family members during the loss, bc i definitely don’t know how to do it
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4 years
are you “can you lend me your drill” gay or “can you bring me some extra potting soil” gay
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4 years
An Extensive List of All the Times It Didn’t Make Sense Dan Was Gossip Girl (1/4,283)
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3 years
(to be clear, the confrontation/conversation was actually like…one of the most empowering things ive ever done. i got to make him put himself in my shoes, he admitted immediately it was assault, and so much more. it’s just that it had to happen at all that is not ideal!!)
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rosemary donahue
2 years
ok yes cheese!
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rosemary donahue
4 years
this is one of those nights i really just want to go to a bar with a book and a notebook and be in my own little world orbiting around a bunch of other people in their little worlds and damn, we have lost so many more important things but it hurts that we’ve lost this, too
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7 months
important context is that CT wasn’t even officially on this season, he was brought into this elimination as a “mercenary” to take bananas out just for bragging rights but his place in the game wasn’t even at stake. he just… did that because he could
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4 years
what's the worst pasta shape
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3 years
laura dern asked me if i'd like her to spritz my face with facial mist the SECOND we met and then thanked me for being my authentic self when i told her i was queer lol
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rosemary donahue
3 years
got told today i look like if anne hathaway and lorde had a baby and while i don’t see it i’m gonna ride that high for at least three months
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4 years
“‘Our resources can and should be diverted to other forms of first response and public safety,’ the employees wrote.” yes!!!!!
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Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
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3 years
feel like this barbie camera by the trash cans in my building’s basement has seen things
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3 years
sorry if you also follow me on instagram but my hair looks good today :)
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4 years
timeline cleanse
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3 years
✨personal news alert✨at the end of this month, i’m leaving my role as wellness editor at @Allure_magazine ! i’m heading over to a new position as senior features editor at @healthmagazine and i am so excited to work with the team over there
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5 years
tuesdays during quarantine
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3 years
milo says good morning ❤️
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2 years
as a BRCA2 mutation carrier, i always assumed i’d get a double mastectomy at some point as a preventative measure — likely in my mid 40s — but within the span of less than two weeks, i’m now trying to come to terms with the idea of getting one as treatment
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4 years
i will like every single tweet about you all getting vaccinated, about your friends getting vaccinated, about your partners getting vaccinated, about your parents getting vaccinated!!! keep them coming, please!!!
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3 years
there’s a guy on this train *drinking* a pint of ice cream, this has been a weather report
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3 years
sometimes it’s just like damn i can’t believe i have to keep doing things for the rest of my life
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4 years
this is one of the most cursed things i've seen in a while
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4 years
my take is that the more queer movies there are the more we won’t all have our hopes hinged on each one that comes out and there will be room for them to not be disappointing without it being such a huge letdown but also she should’ve ended up with riley
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3 years
i want to put my brain in a bath robe, does that make sense
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4 years
still depressed about the new gmail logo
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4 years
might fuck around and cry in the bath
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4 years
at least like 70 percent of tweets are for attention in some way or another and as long as we all admit that we're ahead of the game
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3 years
while i realize this is not realistic for everyone/situation, it was powerful for me, and as close to closure on the situation as i’ll get. i cannot recommend this approach, exactly, bc every trauma and it’s effects on us are different, but i finally felt a weight lifted.
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this is just...so not a thing in our culture, and has become even less normal during COVID, as people who still have employment are scared of losing it and taking time off feels weird because we aren’t exactly going on vacations. but please do it.
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3 years
while i was waiting for the bus today, a couple — not a couple of people, a *couple* — hit on me (and they didn’t even do it in a gross way), and within the next five minutes some teens called me “ma’am” stay humble everyone it’s fucking brutal out there
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4 years
where we’ve been vs. where we are lolol divorce is sometimes wonderful and @danecardiel and i are better friends than ever now!
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milo says hi
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3 years
i’ll likely not say anything else about it here bc, truthfully, i need more time to process and may also end up writing about it in the future, but depending on factors like safety and support, i do believe in expanding how we think about “justice” and how we get it.
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3 years
this sounds like what all the couples on tinder looking for a unicorn say
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2 years
hi! i’m accepting pitches for the health and parenting section at Insider. looking for evergreen stories, as well as stories for the upcoming holidays, if you’ve got ‘em. rates vary depending on scope, but average around $250 for around 700ish words. rdonahue @insider .com no DMs!
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4 years
this is a true and real question — how do you decide who to put on your close friends instagram list? is it really just close friends, or people you’re friends with but don’t work with, or like people you want to see your more NSFW thirst traps, or...?
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2 years
some news: i started a new FT editing role yesterday! i’m happy to have landed on the health and parenting team over at Insider. still onboarding and not quite ready for pitches *just* yet but keep an eye out! 🤠
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caught breast cancer early and made it through a double mastectomy
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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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4 years
i would listen to a band called Lesbian Height Difference
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2 years
hi! coming to you with a very specific pitch call: if you're a Black writer with CP who is also a Beyoncé fan and you want to write something in response to her changing the lyric to "Heated," email me at rdonahue @insider .com. rate will be ~$250 for ~600 words. ty!
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4 years
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3 years
prior to this, we’d texted twice about what happened, and i had made it clear what had happened was not just bad sex. i also made it clear that our meeting would not provide absolution for him (something that’s not possible) but was about me telling him how i felt.
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3 years
so what’s the hot goss?
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4 years
this is the wildest hospital scene i have ever watched and i have watched all episodes of grey’s at least twice
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5 years
i just want one (1) forehead kiss
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4 years
look at this baby 😍
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3 years
lily says good morning
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4 years
me w all my straight friends
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2 years
@tatianatenreyro i absolutely did and it was both a strange and perfect encounter
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2 years
gonna point at my tits and yell "say goodbye to THESE" while they roll me into surgery tomorrow and if I don't get at least one courtesy laugh I'm giving the hospital a bad review on yelp
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3 years
there’s something about this particular period of grief, personal loss, and lack of control that makes me want to hold everyone i love as close as possible and at the same time, burn my life down and start it over
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3 years
i don’t want to date rn i just want someone to silently get into bed with me to cuddle at night and then in the morning keep the whole silent thing going, maybe we drink coffee together though idk haven’t worked out the details yet
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4 years
me, tapping my bottle of wellbutrin like a mic: “is this thing on?”
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3 years
milo says cancel work
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found out i had breast cancer a year ago today! since then i’ve had a double mastectomy and hours (and hours) of physical therapy for pain from cording. i still feel very turned upside-down and this year is mostly a foggy blur tbh but i’m alive and cancer-free now, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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