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The Anti-Heroine in “Lady Macbeth” is More Sinister Than She Seems

It parables the real story of white women throwing Black women and people of color under the bus.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: GIFS Are Selling Digital Blackface

Your favorite Nene Leakes meme might be offensive.

Radical Black Care Is the Revolution

Black women’s salvation depends on collectively agreeing that we are human, that our care is essential to our freedom.

Austra Calls Out White Supremacy On “Future Politics”

Future Politics reaches into hearts, minds, and bodies, and doesn’t easily let go of any of it.

What’s Better than “Wonder Woman” is Warrior Women

The failure to portray warrior women in superhero movies stems from the same failure to portray women authentically in war.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Take a seat, HBO

Speaking of alternative history.

“Women in the Qur’an” Makes Islam a Liberation Tool

“Women in the Qur’an” may prove an important contribution to the conversation about Islam and the sociopolitical realities of Muslim women’s lived experience.

BitchReads: 10 Books You Must Read in August

These 10 new reads explore Nigeria, Brooklyn in the 90’s, a middle school that preaches conformity, and a range of other experiences that will make August one of your favorite months this year.

Human Subjects: Should We Rely on Technology for Transcendence?

For the diehard technophiliac, the true calling of implants and cybernetics is to create a human no longer wracked by the vicissitudes of their own flesh.

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