Books
With “Justine,” Forsyth Harmon Charts Teen Queerness
Justine may weigh very little, but it’s emotionally heavy.
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“What’s Mine and Yours” Complicates the School Segregation Story
Naima Coster’s prescient novel brings human faces to a broader social issue.
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“No One Is Talking about This” Brings Online Pangs to Real Life Tragedy
No One Is Talking About This is a reflection of our ebbing and flowing need for connection.
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“What Doesn’t Kill You” Tells the Gut-Churning Truth about Chronic Illness
Crohn’s disease is unpredictable, cruel, and gross. There’s no way around that.
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In “We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire,” Women’s History is Lifesaving
The novel is a meditation on the power of uncovering past heroines.
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In “Work Won’t Love You Back,” Sarah Jaffe Kills the Dream Job
No one should have to earn the right to financial security through labor.
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Gabrielle Korn Questions the “Feminist Utopia” of Women’s Media
“There needs to be a radical rewriting of what we expect the internet to give us.”
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Very Online: Bean Dad Continues a Tradition of Performative Parenting
From Facebook to Twitter and beyond, parents dunk on their own children online.
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BitchReads: 9 YA Books Feminists Should Read in January
There is one thing we can count on: young adult novels bringing us a much-needed distraction.
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