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Liskula Cohen

7 Lessons From My Online Dating Experiment

Published: Good Men Project (December 18, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen Liskula Cohen and Matthew Rozsa look at how men succeed—and fail—with women in the world of online dating. ___ A few years ago, finding myself in a curious mood, I decided to create two dating profiles on the same site. They were mostly identical—both included information about my personality, likes and dislikes, ambitions,...

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Why can’t America control its gun violence epidemic?

Published: Daily Dot (November 25, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen         There were at least 12 school shootings since December 2012, from Newtown, Conn., to Marysville, Wash. Last week’s attack on Florida State University has made that number even larger. The American fear of guns is real and justifiable. Although I’m best known as a former model, I’m writing about this...

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What You Can Learn from a Model

Published: Good Men Project (November 1, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen Liskula Cohen shares wisdom from a place you might not expect…the world of high-fashion modeling. If there is one thing I’ve learned from being a model, it’s that a lot of the lessons which apply to working in this industry are pretty universal. It’s easy to think of models as living a rarefied existence, inaccessible and...

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Navigating with Anxiety

Published: Good Men Project (October 12, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen Two people, one condition. See how anxiety affected the lives of Liskula Cohen and Matt Rozsa. There is a chaotic quality to suffering from anxiety. As this article was being developed, it became clear that it’s impossible to effectively capture the experience of clinical anxiety in the same linear fashion used for other...

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A Model’s Take on the Politics of Photoshop

Published: GirlieGirlArmy (July 21, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen It’s interesting that Photoshop has developed such a poor reputation.  Over the past week it has already made national news twice – first in a controversy over whether InStyle Magazine excessively altered Zooey Deschanel’s appearance for their cover, and now thanks to a series of Bongo ads featuring Vanessa Hudgens which go out...

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How I Respond To The Court That Just Struck Down A Historic Cyberbullying Law

Published: Mic (July 3, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen On Tuesday, New York’s highest court struck down an Albany County law that would have made it a crime to “cyber-bully.” As a trailblazer in fighting for the rights of cyberbullying victims, you might think that I’d oppose the court’s decision. Unfortunately, the judicial system did what was necessary – overturn a badly-written law that did a...

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Anti Big Pharma But Pro Vax

Published: GirlieGirlArmy.com (June 12, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen Vaccines are a touchy subject. While the trend is turning towards being passionately against them,  others still teeter between comfort in the decision to ultimately have their children vaccinated, feeling the pros outweigh the cons. While we respect our anti-vax readers opinions, here is another perspective from a Mom you’d...

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