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Sarah Manavis

@sarahmanavis.bsky.social

american author of TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF (2027) on the rise and impact of psychotherapy, HarperCollins (UK) + Simon & Schuster (US). writer at the Observer + elsewhere sarahmanavis.com / she/her

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Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This characterisation is exhausting! I know many people who've recently published books (who, like me, are writing one currently) and not a single one has used AI. Maybe it's different for hyper-commercial stuff, like celeb memoirs/self-help, but it is simply not the case for anything with integrity

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Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wrote about this a few years ago and Stephen is absolutely right – but another impact that came up for me was that, by suggesting the harms are an issue of age, it's much easier for Big Tech to avoid regulation/put the onus on users to navigate unsafe content by denying it's unsafe for *everyone*

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continue to think the core problem with “ban the under 16s from social media” is it treats “online harms” as similar to a bottle of Grey Goose when they are far more akin to bathtub moonshine:

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I feel bad for people trying nonmonogamy in 2026. I'd bet in ~20 years a lot of the below, among other similar details in this piece and ones like it, will be less prevalent as it's normalised – but currently every story I hear about it in the media/personally sounds like a little polycule of hell

Lux 🌸 Alptraum@luxalptraum.com · 5mo ago

I’m reading the transcript of Lindy West talking about how she loves being poly now and this bit is just 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨for me www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/p...

Martin: But then there comes a point where you can't avoid it. Tell me about the moment you found out that Aham was dating someone else. West: 2019, I find out that someone who knew what Aham looked like had seen him kissing someone at a bar. I went home, and we talked for the rest of the night, and at this point he had sort of come to the conclusion that we couldn't resolve this, which is why he went ahead and started dating this person. Because I had been gone. I had refused to talk to him about it. And I had technically agreed to be non-monogamous.
Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Sharing this five days late but after being galled by Jia Tolentino's sponcon I started a Substack and wrote about it, which you can find (free) here! If you like this/my work generally please subscribe for what will soon be more regular stuff sarahmanavis.substack.com/p/playing-du...

Playing dumb: on the price of our integrity

We should be sceptical – if not wary – of "anti-capitalist" figures who bend to a corporate paycheck

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Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I have long been sceptical of her politics even though I often like her writing, but Jia Tolentino breaking her "RIGID personal sponcon ban" to do a collab with Airbnb – one of the main targets on the BDS list; when her last post was about fasting for Gaza – does feel a little on the nose

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · last yr.

There’s a real problem of low-hanging fruit in criticism atm where people keep doing “spicy” “takedowns” of art/people with no real power or relevance - or that no one even considers good. Critique should tell you something new or different, not go: “That bad thing? Well… it sucks!!!”

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · last yr.

Some exciting, slightly belated news from me: as of this week I’ve joined the Observer where I’ll be writing across opinion, the magazine and on the new website - alongside some of my favourite editors and journalists. More soon but catch me there from this weekend!

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Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · last yr.

Muting this bc the some of the replies are more insane than the ones I've gotten on Twitter, but I want to emphasise this desire to avoid calling misogyny misogyny atm – which I think is partially an overcorrection on the left in response to the last decade of pop culture, but also is... misogyny!

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · last yr.

People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · last yr.

People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

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Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not the most important part here but the "DOGE" aspect does also affirm we're entering an era where the worst people you know will constantly be dropping the cry laughing emoji about the least funny shit you ever seen

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 2y ago

For the Observer, I wrote about why the smear campaign against Blake Lively managed to work so well, the obviousness of what happened and the terrible place we’ve reached in feminism—where it’s become trendy to preach but not (when push comes to shove) to practice www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why did so many people jump to criticise Blake Lively? The answer isn’t complicated

A man can do anything but if a woman does an inch of wrong, people want to watch her burn

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Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lately i've been thinking about how many of the processes traditional media has used to build trust (an editorial bureaucracy, lots of editing, making work more concise, and hiding a lot of that work & presenting a polished finished product) now read to audiences as inauthentic & less trustworthy

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday I had a fellow YouTuber ask me how we ended up being a credible source of information to our audiences and I realized that you almost can’t be a professional creator /without/ doing that. “Authentic” is very very connected to “trustworthy.”

Sarah Manavis@sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lot of very bad aspects to this, but I have to say a big silver lining to fewer young people on text-based apps is it lowers the chance of having an infuriating argument with someone only to click on their account and see "gaylor | 14"

Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...