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I’m Stacy Lee Kong, a writer, editor, cultural critic and the founder of Friday Things, a weekly newsletter that delivers smart takes on the week’s biggest pop culture stories—or at least, the ones I can’t stop thinking about.

You can also find me dropping hot takes on TV, radio and podcasts (ahem: the Backstreet Boys were better than *NSync, there is too much TV for anyone to reasonably watch and cancel culture isn’t real, you guys). My bylines have appeared in publications including Maclean’s, the Globe & Mail, Reader's Digest and enRoute, and I’ve worked as an editor at some of the largest magazine brands in Canada, including Flare, Canadian Living, House & Home and Chatelaine. I’m also a journalism instructor at Centennial College in Toronto.