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Vi Subversa took late ’70s British punk idealism and held it up to its own values. She challenged the seas of angry, violent young men that crowded British clubs and opened punk up for personal expression. With her band the Poison Girls, she forged a path of punk rock that examined the politics of everyday life. And, who else can say they released their first single when they were a 44-...

I have a complicated relationship with Portlandia. To start, I was born in Portland and I still live here, and I want everyone in the world to know that it’s a great city with more to offer than coffee and bearded white dudes, so I am psyched that it is getting national, positive attention. However, Portlandia does little to challenge stereotypes about Portland and...

• Soraya Chemaly’s responds to the Iowa caucuses with a piece on the incredible inequality for women in US politics.
• s.e. smith looks at the ridiculous bootstrap argument as applied to mental health.
• Watch Francesca Ramsey’s excellent turnaround of the “Shit [blanks] Say” meme, “Shit White Girls Say…to Black...

The result of prevailing cultural attitudes is that autistic people are perceived as inherently non-sexual. Not as asexual—the mainstream paradigm erases the experiences of asexual autists right along with those of other queer people on the spectrum.