Books
Staggering Genius: “The Undocumented Americans” Defies Flattened Migrant Narratives
“As an artist, you have to have a radical vision.”
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Palatable Love: Seeking a Happily Ever After in a White Publishing World
For many diaspora writers, success is predicated on a hefty down payment of writing through the white gaze.
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Which Millennials Get to Be Burned Out?
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.
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Loud and Queer: The Problem with Demanding Queer Visibility
We need to find alternative templates for talking about queer representation.
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“Who I Was With Her” Explores Queer Grief and Loneliness
Nita Tyndall surveys what it’s like to grieve in silence.
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Queer Pressure: #OwnVoices and What We Demand of Queer Authors
Reading is about learning and reflecting, not reaching out and making demands.
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Dethroning Romance: Angela Chen Archives the Evolution of Asexuality
“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.”
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BitchReads: 13 YA Books Feminists Should Read in September
Welcome to our inaugural YA monthly BitchReads list!
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All Together Now: Novels Fight the Myth of the Mean Girl
These new YA protagonists aren’t afraid of their power or the power that their confidence might instill in readers.
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Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Mutual dislike and violence are not an unfortunate bug in the heteropatriarchal system; they’re fundamental to it.
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