Sarah Hepolais the author of the bestsellingBlackoutand whatever she writes next. Often called the Stanford rape (although the ghastly episode was, under California law at the time, considered a sexual assault but not a rape) it became famous after the young woman at the center wrote a blistering victims statement that was published on BuzzFeed and went supernova. What if I had to substitute strawberries for raspberries and the customer didnt like strawberries? But I was swiftly counseled away by my lets-not-die-in-this-ditch partner in difficult conversations. Follow her on Twitter (@sarahhepola) and Instagram . One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for my writing, and maybe other things, if the salty text messages were true. I grew up reading Edgar Allan Poe (alcoholic, married his 13-year-old cousin), dancing to James Brown (domestic abuse, alleged rape), watching Woody Allen movies (is Woody Allen). A New York Times columnist who would eventually be publicly excommunicated. When women are in a blackout, things are done to them.. by Sarah Hepola. But then, if you drink too much, alcohol lowers your judgement and your inhibitions. The reviews were mixed, but the hits didnt really come, maybe because by the time his book came out, during the cresting wave of Black Lives Matter, the culture had moved away from #MeToo discussions, or maybe because nobody felt like tangling with Malcolm Gladwell. But I thought thats what writers do.. This was the stuff of doorstop novels, and yet people were working it out in 280 characters dashed off in line at Trader Joes. Fear. When I quit drinking in 2010, bringing to an end a dark history of blackouts and tumbles down staircases, I thought I might lose my writing career. But the conversation didnt go as Id planned. Well, has the Internet read The Corrections?. You can call it cancel culture. And a lot of us are trapped in that sorry place. Sarah is survived by her husband, Russell Hepola; children, Paula (John) Hepola Anderson, Annette (John) Blume, Lynn (Delbert) Fickes & Keith Hepola; grandchildren, Joanna Anderson, Bryan (Mackenzie) Blume, Joshua (Kelsie) Blume, Maria (Cory) Grunewald, Hannah (Mikael) VahnDijk, Christopher Fickes, Angelene (John) Winges & Shane (Kristi) Fickes; I know this: Im finally ready to have a conversation with the world. Movies and books became a refuge, along with the Top 40 radio I listened to at night in my pink-and-red bedroom to drown out arguments between my parents, who were going through a rough patch. Sarah Hepola @sarahhepola Feb 22, 2023 @marsrat77 Love that. But the conversation didnt go as Id planned. Its very unusual for sexual assaults involving a blackout to get a conviction, partly for this reason. And though the area of expertise Id staked out as a writer was the complications of womens independence and the nuances of sex, and my own personal brand was blunt honesty, I could not bring myself to say word one about these episodes in public. Speaking Topics Given your experience, do you think there is a better way to educate people about these issues? Its a fair point, but me, personally? Yeah. Were missing the chance to learn. You can call it cancel culture. What he said was slow, and careful, and Ive never forgotten it. He came from a different generation, but I was pleased to discover that he shared many of my unconventional opinions and favorite authors, that taste and perspective werent necessarily a matter of the year you were born. I think the first instinct when you have this situation is to cut that person out of your life. Oprah managed deep conversations with each of them, never pointing out that one account brushed uncomfortably against the other. My friends and I at thealternative paper inAustin, Texas,sat around long communal tables at dive bars arguing about pop culture, trying to one-up one another with off-color jokes as we downed pint after pint. Not because anyone asked for it, but because this is the career Ive chosen, and if Im not doing that, then what are we doing here? And they dont know the difference between blacking out and passing out. Every day, I scrolled the endless river of outrage and all-caps, watching people express similar views to mine only to be pounced upon. A single womans life, also precarious. When a woman is passed out, that is a clear line that you should not cross. This was the stuff of doorstop novels, and yet people were working it out in 280 characters dashed off in line at Trader Joes. But the way I was doing business had become a prison of my own making. I was galled by the PMRC, a group of concerned mothers led by the then-wife of Al Gore, Tipper Gore, fighting the cultural rot of songs about masturbation, virginity, BDSM, all the topics a curious girl might find irresistible. All around me, people were folding. I grew so deeply uncomfortable, so roiled with shame, that I began plotting new careers. But I think that when youre in that place, you do feel dramatic. Id spent the past five or so years watching celebrities, pundits, friends, and internet randos fall from grace for reasons as varied as sharing dumb jokes, making clumsy writing errors, accidentally showing their dong, and expressing controversial (though often widely held) opinions in the public execution chambers of social media. I was so hungry for this luxurious taffy pull, where we all gathered together and tried to sort out something closer to the truth. I was screwed. She went to St. Her memoir, "Blackout," will be published by Grand Central on June 23, 2015. Are you kidding? There were the pressing matters of rent, exorbitant insurance, and the occasional glitter heels. I list some blood-alcohol content numbers in the book, which are average BACs: a fragmentary [partial] blackout happens at 0.20, and en bloc [complete] blackouts are, on average, at about 0.30. Were missing the chance to learn. Every once in a while, Id get a head of steam about some scandal, and Id start a big-swing essay only to bench myself a few days later. In her book, released in June, the author -- who edits personal essays for Salon.com -- discusses her long, both complicated and sometimes devastatingly simple relationship with alcohol. I couldnt always tell the difference between activism and protectionism, valid critique and frivolous complaint. So much so, in fact, that when her father suggested she. She was preceded in death by: her husband, Don; her son, Mark; and her daughter in law Twyla (Paul). Burial service for victims of the SS Atlantic shipwreck, April 1873. This was 2018, and the party was an informal gathering at the sumptuous Brooklyn brownstone of a writer deemed problematic, even before that word went mainstream. Last year marked a low point for me. Oh God, I did that. Some of them were just never going to cut me out, no matter what. to John "Vernor" and Signe Porkkonen. My parents were Yankee liberals, only one of many ways we didnt fit. That she sympathizes with accused rapists, for one thing . Join Tracy Clark-Flory as she presents her newest book Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire. But my cohort and I had grown up wanting it both ways: a safe career, and an artistic one. How long does it take to become a therapist? A human life is morally complex, filled with ambivalence and uncertainty, and accepting the quickly assembled dogma of social-media feeds lets us bypass messier realities that we ignore at our own peril. Like me, the younger man had fallen in love with art because it was the place where people told the truth. My book opens with an episode in Paris where I came out of a blackout in the middle of having sex with a man I did not recognize. She went to St. But in silencing our own moral compass and strongly held beliefs, were hanging ourselves out to dry, rendering our wisdom and insight useless. Hepola A lonely, attention-starved child, Hepola started stealing sips of her parents' beer at age seven. My college boyfriend introduced me to Joan Didion. Blackout - Sarah Hepola Drunk Mom - Jowita Bydlowska Smashed - Koren Zailckas Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety - Sasha Zimmerman Scoblic Parched: A Memoir - Heather King The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison Reply . Artists were the weirdos and the scoundrels, the square pegs who never fit the round hole of society, and the result was typically a bucket of addictions, perversions, and bizarre predilections born of life on the outskirts. Five years ago this month, Sarah Hepola awoke to a scene that looked like just any other Sunday morning. New York, Grand Central Publishing, 2015, 230 pp., 26.00. I surrounded myself with people who reminded me I was loved, no matter what the firing squads on Twitter said. What was trauma, really? I was so scared that my life was over. How long does it take to become a therapist? And by the way, feminism never did this to me, the body acceptance movement never did this to me -- this was simply what I did, probably because I didnt want to do the hard work of change. Instead my writing grew better, stronger, more clearheaded. You mention that you were able to write off educational materials about excessive drinking -- like a student health center pamphlet, in college -- because they just didnt seem that realistic to you. Sarah Hepolais the author of the bestselling memoir,Blackout. I was so proud of this small, private act of civil disobedience that I brought it home to Texas to show it to the younger man like a prized pelt. ), Backstage at the Texas Book Festival event, I chatted with Gladwell. Oh I cant, I said, and its hard to read Malcolm Gladwell, but his body language expressed something like: Then what are we doing here? Id spent the past five or so years watching celebrities, pundits, friends, and internet randos fall from grace for reasons as varied as sharing dumb jokes, making clumsy writing errors, accidentally showing their dong, and expressing controversial (though often widely held) opinions in the public execution chambers of social media. Everything is guesswork. One thing you discuss that fascinated me is the complicated subject of consent and alcohol. It was also, as Miller acknowledged and like every story ever told, incomplete. The #MeToo movement, which felt like a necessary corrective when it began, was starting to feel like an arrow pointed at our own agency. We wanted the premium Scotch and the bragging rights of being an outsider. No jail time. Sally is survived by her children: John (Tracy), Bemidji, MN; Paul, Menahga, MN; jean Gibbs (Mark), Waconia, MN, Sue Umhoefer (Mark),Hartland, Wl, and Dale, Bemidji, MN. My friends and I at the alternative paper in Austin, Texas, sat around long communal tables at dive bars arguing about pop culture, trying to one-up one another with off-color jokes as we downed pint after pint. Too fraught, no lived experience. Three guys I met on dating apps who refused to get vaccinated: Eh, never mind. Yes, I Am a Dallas Girl. Were living in a time when social media have made it dangerous to address certain fraught topics from the wrong perspective. She was one of those people who rarely had a bad day. Her place was filled with hardback books and writers who had been invited because they danced on the precarious edge of what was considered appropriate. This interview has been edited and condensed. What was trauma, really? Maybe it would get me intoThe New Yorker! She eventually identified herself as Chanel Miller, but at the time of the statements publication, it was anonymous, and identified only the other key figure, a swimmer named Brock Turner, whose ubiquitous mug shot helped turn him into the poster child for every smug athlete, every entitled douchebag the world has ever known. Public scolding, all-caps hyperbole, a stubborn refusal to understand another point of viewintolerance, once perceived as a conservative problem, was fully bipartisan now. Gender, sex, morality. All Rights Reserved. While researching my book, I spoke with Aaron White, a leading expert on blackouts who is now the chief of epidemiology and biometry at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. My point in all of this is: Hey, were having this explosive, important, necessary, fascinating, difficult conversation about consent. TWIN CITIES, MN Camille Williams, who co-anchored with her husband Cory Hepola for KARE 11 on weekends surprised her fans Tuesday night when she announced her departure from the station . Public shaming is the worst kind of shaming. Going against the online outrage machine could be career suicide. They have no idea. The reasons were simple, at least for me. Its projection. A writers life is financially precarious. Sarah Hepola is represented by Amy Williams of The Williams Company. I have a million things to say, but well talk about it after the event.. Nobody wants the bad guys to get away with it. Its not about me -- she gave me a great gift by saying, and Im paraphrasing: This is actually about you; this is about your behavior. One of the great mistakes of our moment is being deemed on the wrong side of history. But has anyone read ahead in the book so they know how future generations will see this stuff? And the writing community changed. I still wanted it both ways: the respect and admiration of strangers without the hard work of earning that respect. She was preceded in death by: her husband, Don; her son, Mark; and her daughter in law Twyla (Paul). Joan Didion, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, though I had more reservations about that last one. Sarah grew up in Dallas, Texas, and was brought up in a household of modest chaos. I dont want to brag about where I am now. For me, in terms of consent, there are these very clear lines. If youve never experienced a blackout, it might be hard to understand the icy wrongness of waking up to find a blank space where three hours should be. We need to understand these terms -- "blackout" and "passing out -- a little bit better, so that we can have a better conversation. Lets talk about it out there, he said, gesturing to the corridor that led to a packed audience, and I gave him that look, the same look Id given the younger man who asked why I didnt write about these things. By Sarah Hepola H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty; Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic March 12, 2022 One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for. Blackouts might be the freakiest neurological occurrence that also happens to be casually categorized as another Friday night. Last year marked a low point for me. Ive been waiting for someone to confront me on my drinking! They will feel defensive, hurt. She was one of those people who rarely had a bad day. I have spoken to women who, when they wake up and they cant remember what happened the night before, their immediate thing is, I was drugged; I was roofied. And that is possible, but I think one of the things that wasnt out there, to my thinking, was just how often excessive drinking leads to blacking out, especially for women. Taboo subjects have always been delectable, but suddenly we were living in a time when so much that was once considered fair game for discussion (education, biological differences, the benefits of policing) had become dangerous. Required fields are marked *. Every once in a while, Id get a head of steam about some scandal, and Id start a big-swing essay only to bench myself a few days later. Let's start with the most recent piece: Texas writer Sarah Hepola's Atlantic article, a rambling, illogical screed that was full of fallacious arguments. What he said was slow, and careful, and Ive never forgotten it. She has worked as a music critic, travel writer, film reviewer, sex blogger, beauty columnist, and high school English teacher. I had no husband and no qualms about that. Consent, complicity, moral trespass, power dynamics. Not to engage in callouts, or scolding, or eye rolls, which are not my style, but to express my own deep ambivalence, my own point of view on subjects that matter to me. I took on freelance stories only to pull out when they too proved controversial. And so I watched from afar as the person whose memory had not recorded the incident came to control the narrative. Oprah had him on to talk about the book, and exactly two weeks later, she sat down with Chanel Miller, whose own memoir,Know My Name,had become a sensation. In the pandemic madness of 2021, a journalist friend who enjoyed sounding off on science and homeopathy decided to stay the hell away from COVID. I'm posting this for two compelling reasons. Part of HuffPost Women. Rags to Riches: How US Higher Ed Went from Pitiful to Powerful, podcast about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Follow David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing on WordPress.com, Paul Fussell Thank God for the Atom Bomb, The Winning Ways of a Losing Strategy: Educationalizing Social Problems in the US. She loved the way it made her feel, "melty inside . I was galled by the PMRC, a group of concerned mothers led by the then-wife of Al Gore, Tipper Gore, fighting the cultural rot of songs about masturbation, virginity, BDSM, all the topics a curious girl might find irresistible. Good. The tragic result is a disturbed public forum where it often seems like no adults are in the room. She is also survived by her grandchildren: Sarah, Brady, Matt, JJ, Jennifer, Greg, Joe, Danny, and Shane, along with her great grandchildren Runa, Hans, Asher, Bear, and Autumn. But its not like theyre gonna turn around and say, Thank you! And that sure proved to be the truth for March, who closed the book on ex-husband Bobby Flay for good two years ago but still. I would thump the kitchen table. Maybe Ill write something great this year. Is there anything that would have been helpful for you to hear, or that you would say to people who are in that stage right now? Course Syllabus School, What Is It Good For? I toyed with the idea of writing about Brock Turner. I was very disconnected from the emotional stakes of sex. As she tells it, Sarah Hepola's romance with alcohol began in her childhood (yes, childhood), when she would sneak sips of beer from her mother's half-drunk can in the fridge. | Funeral Home Website by Batesville Home | I suspect I will lose followers (I dont have that many), but perhaps I will gain self-respect, which Ive been sorely lacking lately. If so, can they please tell me, so I can choose my stance accordingly? The unwritten rule of elite media tribes seemed to be this: You spout the company line, or you shut up. ", When she was having a blackout, Hepola explains, she could appear to be interacting with the world consciously -- but afterward, she would have no memory of what had happened. . Every one of my friendships got stronger when I quit drinking -- because when you dare to tell the truth to the people who are close to you, and you dare to show your heart to them, that is an act of trust, and people, if theyre good friends -- and mine were -- they respond to that. Its like that line I have in the book: I thought sobriety was the boring part, but sobriety is the plot twist. And I knew blackouts so intimately that I literally wrote the book. And a lot of us are trapped in that sorry place. She was in her own bed, her cat snuggled up beside her and the sun . I toyed with the idea of writing about Brock Turner. I lost 50 pounds, but I still have to accept that Im never going to have the body of my 5'10" actress friend. Perhaps my thinking, steeped in the classic liberalism of 90s slacker culture, was unevolved. I didnt deserve to be there, or at least thats how I felt as guests exchanged war stories about the scolds on social media, where I mostly posted upcoming appearances, like a bot run by a PR firm. But admitting what Ireallythought, what Ireallybelieved about these complicated issues, I feared a similar exile. The younger man and I could talk in an antic way Id come to find quite valuable. In the sixth grade, I did a six-week research project on the PMRC, the Parents Music Resource Center, and you might call that lengthy, impassioned report my first long-form story. When you are making policy, and when you are trying to make social change, it behooves you to speak in very clear terms, you know? Sinopsis Para Sarah Hepola el alcohol era la gasolina de toda aventura. Not gonna die in that ditch today. Peak Atlantic. But in my professional life, I wrote about apolitical subjects such as dating and travel, and on Instagram, I mostly posted about my cat and whatever seltzer I was currently enjoying. All I know is that I hated it, and for five years, I kept very quiet about it. I wrote private messages to writers whose work captured my particular agony, but I never tweeted about those stories, which felt like the equivalent of dating an unpopular guy in secret because your friends might not approve. But such was the fierce community forged by booze that I feared exile. He came from a different generation, but I was pleased to discover that he shared many of my unconventional opinions and favorite authors, that taste and perspective werent necessarily a matter of the year you were born. Im not gonna deal with that person because that person brings chaos -- and I understand that. I grew up in a conservative part of Dallas, in the conservative 80s. In her book, released in June, the author -- who edits personal essays for Salon.com -- discusses her long, both complicated and sometimes devastatingly simple relationship with alcohol. Once-celebrated writers were being publicly rebranded as ghoulish, pieces of trash, red-pilled. The first time Sarah Hepola, author of the new memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, got drunk, she was eleven years old, visiting her cousin for summer vacation. I was very disconnected from my body by the end. by Sarah Hepola. At my core, I was a people pleaser, and the culture had reached a moment when any opinion worthy of expression ran the risk of losing half your audience. podcast about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive. published June 24, 2015. Into someone else's life. Fewer open bars, more closed DMs. That was another reason for the silence. ( 2,291 ) $10.99. Id long considered myself a liberal and a feminist, but Id grown terrified of being banished for views I considered reasonable, or at least worth discussingbut maybe,but what about,but actually. That might be why Ive so desperately sought the validation of people on Twitter Ive never even met. During a blackout, the alcohol user may behave normally, yet have no recollection of events upon sobriety. One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for my writing, and maybe other things, if the salty text messages were true. Your email address will not be published. Sarah Hepola's Blackout, a dark, funny, honest-to-the-bone account of getting sober. Its a fair point, but me, personally? At last, I've finally reached the end of The Atlantic. A human life is morally complex, filled with ambivalence and uncertainty, and accepting the quickly assembled dogma of social-media feeds lets us bypass messier realities that we ignore at our own peril. If youve never experienced a blackout, it might be hard to understand the icy wrongness of waking up to find a blank space where three hours should be. Im worried about you. My book opens with an episode in Paris where I came out of a blackout in the middle of having sex with a man I did not recognize. But the social and moral and criminal consequences can be grave. And it never occurred to me that that conflation was happening, and it was happening on such a wide level. I was not writing much about this stuff, except in the journals where I always stowed my secrets. Infused with sharp humor and carried along with elegant, brisk prose, Blackout traces the arc of Hepola's life, beginning when she was seven years old and snuck her first sips of Pearl Light from the family fridge in Dallas, "the land of rump-shaking cheerleaders and Mary Kay." After guiding us through her adolescent tribulations, first relationships, and drunken antics at the University of . The Internet hates Franzen? He was not an online creature, despite being 29. Make a life-giving gesture Cloud Teachers College and became a 4 th Grade Teacher in Sebeka, MN where she met her future husband, Donald Hepola. She was a very positive person, had an independent spirit, was high energy, and was incredibly welcoming and caring. There had been more grievous allegations, of courserape, pedophilia, physical abuse. Sarah Hepola is the author of the memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, a New York Times bestseller. Conan O'Brien's recent comedy bits about Finland earned him that country's adulation; his trip there for a one-hour specialairing tonightsealed the deal. Writers gathered around the long communal table of Twitter, and some days it felt like the last scene of Reservoir Dogseveryone turning their guns on one another. Maybe Ill write something lousy. Id get killed!, His look wasnt judgmental. So I was relieved that someone of Gladwells stature had broached the topic. Her stories have appeared in the NYT Magazine, the Guardian, Elle, Slate, Texas Monthly, and Salon, where she was a long-time editor. (Blackouts can be either partial or complete.). And I needed to feel comfortable in my body. What the unlikely matchup means for one writer's family. But being sympathetic to these fallen creaturesa trait instilled by literature, my mother, and Oprahhad been declared a sin. And so it came as an unwelcome surprise to watch the intolerance that my liberal friends once decried on the censorious right flood to our side of the street. Sarah Hepola The Things I'm Afraid to Write About by David Labaree March 24, 2022 Leave a Comment This post is a remarkable essay by Sarah Hepola, which appeared recently online at Atlantic. Cloud Teachers College and became a 4th Grade Teacher in Sebeka, MN where she met her future husband, Donald Hepola. In the pandemic madness of 2021, a journalist friend who enjoyed sounding off on science and homeopathy decided to stay the hell away from COVID. They were married in Little Falls and moved to Eden Prairie,. Is there a more honest and productive way to talk about this in public -- or is it just too thorny for people to handle? Show More. That sounds really dramatic. What was I, a rape apologist? Mini Biography. What It's Like When Alcohol Takes Over Your Life -- And Steals Your Memories, "periods of memory loss for events that transpired while a person was drinking,". Maybe it would get me into The New Yorker! Funeral Planning and Grief Resources | That was another reason for the silence. Some kind of moral monster? Its projection. Maybe Ill meet the love of my life, and maybe come April, Ill be picking up groceries for the good people of North Texas who need those seven items, pronto. I just decided, I get to be however I want, and you need to accept me. You cant predict these things; its all guesswork. Gender, sex, morality. She writes of her. But central to Millers despair is this: She could not remember what happened. We know that. Here's a link to the original. Was the gender wage gap a myth? Lets get blackout has been a college rallying cry for many years. Beginning. First scientifically described in 1946 by E.M. Jelliinek, an alcohol-induced blackout is an amnestic event during a drinking episode without loss of consciousness. But there would be no lunch after the show. Nobody wants the bad guys to get away with it. But in silencing our own moral compass and strongly held beliefs, were hanging ourselves out to dry, rendering our wisdom and insight useless. And I knew blackouts so intimately that I literally wrote the book. David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing, Comments on the nature of the US system of schooling, big history, and the craft of writing. 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