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Mock & Awe: Janet Mock on Truth-Telling, Community Building, and Writing the Story She Had Been Waiting for Her Whole Life

by Tina Vasquez
February 4, 2014 at 8:51am

Redefining Realness is written with astounding honesty and heart.

Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

by Zetta Elliott
December 17, 2013 at 3:19pm

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens in the conversation below, where  Zetta Elliott (below left), a black feminist writer of poetry, plays, essays, novels, and stories for children, and award-winning Haitian-American speculative fiction writer Ibi Aanu...

What I Learned About Gender and Power from Sailor Moon

by Soleil Ho
May 31, 2013 at 1:43pm

My life began in 1995 — the year I turned eight and became a divorced kid. 

 

All Hail the Queen?: What do our perceptions of Beyoncé's feminism say about us?

by Tamara Winfrey Harris
May 20, 2013 at 10:35am

Who run the world? If entertainment domination is the litmus test, then all hail Queen Bey.
Game Changer Illustration by Jasmine Silver.

Game Changer: Why Gaming Culture Allows Abuse... and How We Can Stop It

by Katherine Cross
November 21, 2012 at 1:21pm

You're a Bolshevik feminist jewess that hates white people… and you expect to be taken seriously when you're “critique-ing” video games? Fucking ovendodger. 

Like water through a bursting dam, the deluge came first in pinprick spouts and then rushed through in a pitiless torrent. E-mails, tweets, and YouTube comments attacked feminist...

No Disrespect: Black women and the burden of respectability

by Tamara Winfrey Harris
May 22, 2012 at 12:22pm

In February 2012, PBS host Tavis Smiley interviewed Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer about their Oscar nominations for their roles as Aibileen and Minny, Jim Crow–era domestic workers in The Help. “I'm pulling for both of you to win on Academy Award night,” Smiley ventured. “But there's something that sticks in my craw about celebrating Hattie McDaniel so many years ago for...

Target Market: Black women with guns: frontier feminists or insurrectionists?

by Joshunda Sanders
February 14, 2012 at 3:21pm

When I was 6 years old, my mother and I were robbed at gunpoint by two men looking for cash. One of them placed the gun at my head until she gave them her mink coat, which looked real but wasn't, and the bus fare she had in her pocket. Because of that experience, I grew up associating random violence with the crack-addled neighborhoods of 1980s New York City. But the...

The Unbelievers: New Atheism and the Old Boys' Club

by Victoria Bekiempis
May 18, 2011 at 10:09am

Women are God-fearing and don't challenge institutions. Men, on the other hand, are skeptical and rational, and go out of their way to publicly call bullshit on faith and religion—which is why today's well-known secular thinkers, especially in the ranks of the New Atheism movement, are all male.

These statements should sound ridiculous because, of course, they are. From...

Douchebag Decree: Anti-Choice Hidden Camera Edition

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 10, 2011 at 3:33pm

Tool-in-pimp's-clothing James O'Keefe's laughable costume and douchebag seduction methods have mostly discredited his conservative hidden-camera hijinks. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Lila Rose, a 22-year-old whose organization, Live Action: a “new media movement for life,” is using hidden cameras to discredit Planned Parenthood and garnering mainstream and...

House Proud : The troubling rise of stay-at-home daughters

November 4, 2010 at 1:28pm

“Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope 
of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out 
independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has 
the ability to say,...

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