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Set Yourself Free: How Generations of Black Women Have Fought Incarceration

Black women have historically fought constraint and oppression.

Touch Too Much: Let’s Talk about Consent beyond Sex

Even within social-justice circles where we regularly espouse the necessity of consent and the importance of teaching it, we rarely talk about touch separate from its relationship to sex.

Flaunting Freedom: The History of Louisiana’s 18th-Century Tignon Laws

We cannot discount how enslaved Black women used dress as a form of resistance.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: The Weaponization of White Male Charm

These men aren’t geniuses or criminal masterminds—they’re just white guys.

Douchebag Decree: The No-Host Oscars

Why didn’t the Academy ask us who should host?

Adventures in Feministory: Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer is often overlooked despite her staggering contributions to social change.

BitchTapes: Pleasure

Andrea Silva mines personal experience, the melodrama of Colombian telenovelas, and growing up singing at funerals from a young age to create music imbued with a hazy melancholy that explores love, sensuality, and femininity.

Lane Moore On Surviving Lifelong Loneliness

I wanted to write a book for people like myself because no one writes for us. 

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Racist Killer Inspires Internet Subculture of Future Racist Killers

Following the footsteps of the incel movement, the “Bowl Gang” turned a racist murderer into a hero.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Another One Bites the Dust

BAFTA just suspended Bryan Singer’s nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody.

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