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Trans Women Are Women. Why Do We Have to Keep Saying This?

by Leela Ginelle
June 9, 2015 at 4:54pm

Caitlin Jenner posing on the cover of Vanity Fair. 

This Sunday, the New York Times ran an op-ed by feminist filmmaker and journalist Elinor Burkett, titled “What Makes a Woman?” 

Why You Should Pay for Porn

by Casey Quinlan
April 29, 2015 at 7:27pm

If you’re a progressive middle-class individual, chances are you think about where your food comes from. Maybe you try to buy shoes that are ethically made and do research on who grew your coffee.  

Where My Girls At: Meet Two of Ferguson's Black Queer Activists

by Erica Cardwell
April 27, 2015 at 3:26pm

Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change.

Demanding the Impossible: Walidah Imarisha Talks About Science Fiction and Social Change

by Kristian Williams
April 13, 2015 at 2:23pm

Before she was a poet, journalist, documentary filmmaker, anti-prison activist, and college instructor, Walidah Imarisha was fascinated with Klingons and elves. She still is.

Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice

by Walidah Imarisha
February 11, 2015 at 8:57pm

Our justice movements desperately need science fiction.

She-Hulk, Attorney at Law: She's Mean, She's Green, and She Believes in Due Process

by Tammy Oler
February 11, 2015 at 8:54pm

Avenger. Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Member of the Fantastic Four. In her many superhero roles over the past 35 years, She-Hulk has proven to be one of the strongest characters in the Marvel universe. But it’s her role as an attorney that’s been truly groundbreaking for women in comics. 

In 2004, a revamped She-Hulk series from writer Dan Slott...
a blue and white illustration of police brutality

Sister Soldiers: On Black Women, Police Brutality, and the True Meaning of Black Liberation

by Tasha Fierce
February 11, 2015 at 8:47pm

Unless you’re looking for their names, you won’t find the stories of all Black women shot and killed by police officers in the past five years in the discourse surrounding police reform.

Politically Correct Language Isn't Just About Being Polite—It's About Survival

by Leela Ginelle
February 10, 2015 at 12:23pm

Photo by Phillipe Leroyer (Creative Commons).

Two weeks ago, Jonathan Chait published the lengthy essay “Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say” in New York magazine. In his piece, Chait attempts to articulate the ways in which moderate liberal thought interacts with what he terms “politically correct leftism,”...

Will Filming the Police Keep Us Safe?

by Victoria Law
February 5, 2015 at 10:31am

There’s a cultural idea that having someone looking over our shoulder makes us behave better. From fake security cameras to Elf on the Shelf, the common belief goes that if we’re being watched, we’ll be slightly more decent people.

Know & Tell: The literary renaissance of trans women writers

by Katherine Cross
November 21, 2014 at 3:02pm

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change.

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