Belinda Luscombe

Belinda Luscombe

Belinda Luscombe, an editor-at-large at TIME, writes about cultural trends and social sciences. From 2003 to 2008, Luscombe served as TIME's arts editor, a role in which she directed all of TIME's cultural coverage and wrote profiles and culture stories. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Mademoiselle, the New York Times, Travel & Leisure and Vogue.
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+Family | May 10, 2012

How Feminism Begat Intensive Mothering

By Belinda Luscombe
Corbis

Feminism and motherhood have long been cast as feuding sisters, one always attempting to undermine the other. In this calculation, women had to choose between the independence, education and self-expression of the feminist path and the nurture, sacrifice and child-centricity of the family path. The more feminist a woman is, the less appetite, it has [...]

+Pop Culture | December 13, 2011

Zynga’s Words with Friends Is My Enemy, Too

By Belinda Luscombe
zynga

Alec Baldwin caused quite a kerfuffle recently when he got booted off a plane for playing a game, Words With Friends, on his phone after the plane’s doors had closed. To some, this was a sign of the dire level of service in the airline industry. Others pointed to the culture of celebrity entitlement and [...]