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New Music Monday: Aurora Nealand

New Orleans composer/musician Aurora Nealand splits her time between bandleading for her traditional ragtime band and making inventive, political art-pop as a solo artist.

Champagne, Sequins, and Male Tears: “Z” Season One Roundtable for Two

Z follows the Fitzgeralds through their bumpy marriage, their flapper-artist lifestyle, and party after party after party.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: This Photo Looks Familiar

Today we’re reading about Melissa McCarthy, Hamilton, and abortion.

The Self as Specimen: On “All the Lives I Want” and Feminine Feelings

Alana Massey’s debut collection holds a mirror to our celebrity obsessions and our hesitations toward women making art about themselves.

 

Black Venus Rising: The Symbolism of Beyoncé’s Pregnancy Photos

Anyone who has seen Lemonade can tell you that Beyoncé is fond of bending symbols to her will.

BitchTapes Super Bowl Sunday

I’ll try not to let my hearty anti-Patriots fervor affect this playlist of music from the regions participating in the Super Bowl this weekend. 

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: #DeleteUber Worked

Today we’re reading about The OA, South Park, and Steve Bannon.

Pop Culture Prepared Me: The Trumpocalypse

So glad yet horrified that pop culture prepared me for these terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad, troubled dystopian horror times!

The Worst 100 Days: Make “Alternative Facts” Lies Again

In a postfactual world, the question of how to report, broadcast, and process news is more pressing than ever.

New Music Monday: Wimps

The punk band’s frontwoman Rachel Ratner taught herself guitar solos from Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins songs as a teen. 

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