Smashing Barriers: Mara Altman and Virgie Tovar On Body Acceptance, Fatphobia, and Imagining a New World for Women
Diet culture is just the newest form of women’s subjugation.
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2018 Was the Summer of the Asian Beach Read
Having access to the “beach read” label feels like acceptance—the ability to reach audiences who might see our work as a source of pleasure instead of education.
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Girl on a Sexist Bandwagon: The Consequences of Publishing’s “Gone Girl” Craze
In these books, certain women are allowed to be messy, make mistakes, and commit heinous crimes while also being presented as anti-heroines who are simply ensnared in systems larger than themselves.
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Moving Past Toxicity: Fighting for a New Vision of Masculinity
What is the masculinity that exists beyond patriarchy?
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Curses and Kitchens: “Jell-O Girls” Looks at the Secret, Sexist History of America’s Classic Dessert
“Jell-O Girls” is at once a memoir, a family history, and an overview of the domestication (and dissolution) of the American kitchen.
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24-hour Women: Drinking to Escape Patriarchy
Alcoholic men are often praised for admitting they have a problem while alcoholic women are shamed.
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart on Changing the Narrative of Poverty in Media
Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart, the brains behind the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, discuss their respective books, the importance of identifying with one another across class, and #MeToo.
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BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read In August
Summer might be ending, but the great books continue.
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At the Borders, On the Margins: Jean Guerrero’s “Crux” puts a reporter’s lens on family and memory
Memoir fans will love the ambitious and sometimes experimental structure of Jean Guererro’s debut.
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