Anna Rollins

Anna Rollins

Anna Rollins's forthcoming memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl examines the rhyming scripts of purity culture and diet culture. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature and other outlets. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and three small children. 

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Image from the Netflix documentary, 'Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever'

'Don't Die,' Ballerina Farm and the theology of self-optimization

Bryan Johnson, the focus of the Netflix documentary "Don't Die," and Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm have something in common: a theology of pleasure-denial now to yield ultimate reward later. 

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