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What Just Happened? : Family Separation, Government Gaslighting

An image of a detention center for immigrants at the border.

by Bitch HQ June 20, 2018 at 12:40pm

If you live in the United States, the Trump administration is carrying out these tactics in your name. Don’t let them.

Bad Blood: “Hereditary” Finds the Horror in Denial and Repression

by Lena Wilson

June 20, 2018 at 12:13pm

Hereditary is a fable about generational silence in the face of mental illness.

Marchers in the Resistance contingent of the 2017 San Francisco Pride Parade hold signs reading "Stop Police Terror" and "Black & Brown Lives Matter"

Targeting the Opposition: The Long, Troubling History of Cops at Pride Parades

by Kitty Stryker

June 20, 2018 at 11:01am

Pride started in the late 1950s as a series of riots and protests against police officers.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Your Juneteenth Reading List

by Bitch HQ

June 20, 2018 at 6:00am

These stories explain both the fraught history of the holiday and the need for celebration.

Of Mice and Men: When Research Excludes Female Rodents, Human Women Lose

by Naseem Jamnia

June 19, 2018 at 1:25pm

The scientific implications of excluding female animals from scientific and biomedical research are astounding.

Creative Friction: For Francesca Lia Block, Writing is Healing

by Dahlia Balcazar

June 19, 2018 at 11:48am

Francesca Lia Block’s new book The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and The Creative Process, weaves memoir with lessons on the craft of writing to create a unique and visceral guide to creativity.

Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel in Disney-Pixar's Coco

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: “Coco” & This Horrible Moment

by Bitch HQ

June 19, 2018 at 6:00am

“Coco is a movie about borders more than anything—the beauty in their porousness, the absolute pain produced when a border locks you away from your family.”