Books

In “Work Won’t Love You Back,” Sarah Jaffe Kills the Dream Job

A Black man and woman at work. The woman is teaching the man how to do something on a computer screen.
by Mary Retta
January 26, 2021 at 11:05am
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

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
January 12, 2021 at 10:06am
“There needs to be a radical rewriting of what we expect the internet to give us.” Read more »
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Very Online: Bean Dad Continues a Tradition of Performative Parenting

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
January 8, 2021 at 2:09pm
From Facebook to Twitter and beyond, parents dunk on their own children online. Read more »
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BitchReads: 9 YA Books Feminists Should Read in January

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
January 8, 2021 at 11:47am
There is one thing we can count on: young adult novels bringing us a much-needed distraction. Read more »
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In the Stars: Rachel True Wades into the World of Tarot

by Vilissa Thompson
December 15, 2020 at 10:01am
The magic isn’t really in the paper, the cards, or the ink. Read more »
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BitchReads: 7 Books Feminists Should Read in December

by Evette Dionne
December 14, 2020 at 3:30pm
We hope that our monthly BitchReads list has served as even a small distraction. Read more »
Ijeoma Oluo, a light-skinned Black woman with short brown hair, poses in a red shirt and a leopard-print headband

Ijeoma Oluo’s “Mediocre” Explores the Disaster of White Male Supremacy

by Shannon Weber
December 14, 2020 at 3:11pm
Mediocre resists the naive and coddling notion that simply loving white men out of their brittle rage and self-hatred will turn things around. Read more »
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BitchReads: 7 YA Books Feminists Should Read in December

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
December 3, 2020 at 12:30pm
As we wrap up 2020, we’ll be reading. Read more »
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Sobering Realities: Women Write Their Way into the Addiction Canon

by Britni de la Cretaz
December 2, 2020 at 9:31am
Slowly but surely, women have been adding their stories to the memoir canon. Read more »
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The Corn-Fed Whiteness of Rural Literature

by s.e. smith
November 24, 2020 at 9:00am
Much of this canon is white and male, fetishizing a version of rural life that never truly existed. Read more »
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9 Political Novels That Help Us Understand Our Current Chaos

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
November 23, 2020 at 11:48am
These nine novels help us better understand how we got here. Read more »

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by Tina Vasquez
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Demanding the Impossible: Walidah Imarisha Talks About Science Fiction and Social Change

by Kristian Williams
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A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law
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Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

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by Joshunda Sanders
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Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »