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Which Millennials Get to Be Burned Out?

by Nicole Froio
September 22, 2020 at 9:00am
Can’t Even manages to gather research on the specificities of white, middle-class millennial burnout, but it fails to provide a truly structural and historical view of the issue of work and millennials. Read more »
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Loud and Queer: The Problem with Demanding Queer Visibility

by Marina Watanabe
September 18, 2020 at 12:53pm
We need to find alternative templates for talking about queer representation. Read more »
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“Who I Was With Her” Explores Queer Grief and Loneliness

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 15, 2020 at 8:55am
Nita Tyndall surveys what it’s like to grieve in silence. Read more »
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Queer Pressure: #OwnVoices and What We Demand of Queer Authors

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 14, 2020 at 11:19am
Reading is about learning and reflecting, not reaching out and making demands. Read more »
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Dethroning Romance: Angela Chen Archives the Evolution of Asexuality

by Julie Kliegman
September 8, 2020 at 8:58am
“I write about how asexuality has become a sexual identity, but it can also be thought of as just a way of living that doesn’t center sex.” Read more »
A Black woman sits on a bench and reads a book. Her hair is in long braids, she’s wearing a dress, and she’s smiling.

BitchReads: 13 YA Books Feminists Should Read in September

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 2, 2020 at 10:25am
Welcome to our inaugural YA monthly BitchReads list! Read more »
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All Together Now: Novels Fight the Myth of the Mean Girl

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 2, 2020 at 9:00am
These new YA protagonists aren’t afraid of their power or the power that their confidence might instill in readers. Read more »
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Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality

by Fiona Bell
September 1, 2020 at 9:03am
Mutual dislike and violence are not an unfortunate bug in the heteropatriarchal system; they’re fundamental to it. Read more »
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To Be Young, Messy, and Black: “Luster” Depicts Millennial Black Girl Angst

by Vanessa Willoughby
August 27, 2020 at 10:00am
Edie refuses to practice tokenism to secure financial, personal, creative, and romantic stability. Read more »
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BitchReads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read in August

by Evette Dionne
August 25, 2020 at 12:00pm
We’re late, we know. Read more »

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Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice

by Walidah Imarisha
Spring 2015 • Law & Order
Our justice movements desperately need science fiction. Read more »

A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law
November 17, 2014 at 5:07pm
Nearly every Saturday morning, feminists of color hold Twitter discussions taking a deeper look at issues, such as gender violence. It’s the... Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

by Katherine Cross
Winter 2015 • (Re)Vision
For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

by Zetta Elliott
December 17, 2013 at 3:19pm
What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens... Read more »