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Anyone who gets geeky about gender, numbers, and comics should check out Ladydrawers today! Writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore teams up with a female comics artist to produce comics explore various inequities within the comics industry—from who’s being hired, who’s being printed, and who’s inside the pages (and how fully dressed they are!).

Earlier this year, personal care product brand Nivea pulled a men’s skincare ad and issued a public apology for its blatantly racist undertones. As reported on over at GOOD magazine, the ad in question “features a preppy, groomed black man holding the head of his former self, who’s sporting a beard, an afro, and a pissed-off expression.” The tag line? “Re-civilize yourself.” As in...

Responses to September 11 have been fraught from the start. As I thought through the problem of grief over the weekend, I was gratified that NPR posted the new work by minimalist musicians Steve Reich and the Kronos Quartet, WTC/9/11. Here’s a sample: 

In Willow’s defense, she tries to be inclusive in “Whip My Hair,” emphasizing that it “don’t matter if it’s long or short” all you have to do is “do it, do it whip your hair.” But the stark truth is, I can’t really whip my hair back and forth; it sort of just goes along with my head which then renders my attempts at hair-whipping mere glorified headbanging. Of...