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The Pleasure Dome: Conversations with My Sex Toys

by adrienne maree brown
May 17, 2017 at 9:46am

On intimacy, honesty, and queerness: A conversation between our pleasure columnist adrienne maree brown and sex toys.

Resistance Narratives: Lidia Yuknavitch on Joan of Arc, Bodies, and Reimagining the Love Story

by Sara Rauch
May 17, 2017 at 9:00am

Intersectional feminism is rising, cracks and fissures are emerging, blind spots are being illuminated, failures examined, possibilities getting born. Good. Bring it.
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Queerness Is Not a Side Piece: 'Dear White People's' Shortchanged Characters

by Cameron Glover
May 16, 2017 at 11:56am

Dear White People would have been more nuanced if it explored Winchester through the lens of Lionel, a gay Black man.

Q&A with Filmmaker Joey Ally: On “Joy Joy Nails,” Intersectional Filmmaking, and Human Rights

by Lisa Factora-Borchers
May 16, 2017 at 9:39am

Sundance alumna and director/writer, Joey Ally’s newest short film Joy Joy Nails highlights the untold truth of abysmal pay, racism, and sometimes violence that women endure in the roughly 2,000 nail salons across New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

Storytelling Will Spark the Overthrow: A Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Book of Joan”

by Sara Rauch
May 16, 2017 at 8:55am

[E]ven if the bodies in The Book of Joan are devoid of gender, they do still cling to sex, love, emotion—they have to, because what else is there to live for when the world’s gone to shit?

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup

by Bitch HQ
May 16, 2017 at 7:44am

Today we’re reading about pornography, Claudia Rankine, and “Lemonade-ing.”
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5 Books for Women Who Work that Ivanka Trump Should Read

by Evette Dionne
May 15, 2017 at 12:05pm

Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, is supposed to inspire and empower women, but it’s actually low on actual substance.

About the Art: The Invisibility Issue

by Kristin Rogers Brown
May 15, 2017 at 9:07am

In this time of ahistoricism, where so much is based on “right now,” we wanted to reference the history of violence on which the U.S. has been—and continues to be—built, from slavery and colonialism to devastating environmental practices, to the destruction of sacred lands and resources that were not here for the taking.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup

by Bitch HQ
May 15, 2017 at 9:05am

Today we’re reading about freeing Black mamas, Hollywood continuing to whitewashing its films, and what happened to the Sandra Bland Act.

Bad Math: The Economics of Deportation Don’t Add Up

by Natascha Uhlmann
May 15, 2017 at 5:03am

This article appears in our 2017 Spring issue, Family Values. Subscribe today!

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump promised to round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States.

The issue of immigration is nonpartisan: President Obama has been called “deporter-in-chief,” as his administration expelled more...

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