Books
“Beloved,” Black Women, and the Limits of Freedom
Beloved is a touchstone for the complexities of today’s Black freedom struggle.
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Set Yourself Free: How Generations of Black Women Have Fought Incarceration
Black women have historically fought constraint and oppression.
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Lane Moore On Surviving Lifelong Loneliness
I wanted to write a book for people like myself because no one writes for us.
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Plastic Pleasure: Hallie Lieberman On the Liberating Future of Sex Toys
Acceptance of sex toys is not necessarily an acceptance of women’s masturbation.
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The Misguided Pursuit of “Better” Manhood at American Fraternities
The dominant narrative around fraternities has long been one of peer pressure, blackout drinking, and cruel hazing rituals. So why are so many male students, especially white ones, as excited as ever to join them?
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Preparing for a Post-Roe America: A Q&A with Robin Marty
Robin Marty’s Handbook for Post-Roe America is the resource guide for anyone who wants to dedicate their time, money, energy—or all of the above—to keeping abortion accessible in this country while it’s legal, and even if it’s not.
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“Maid” and the Resurgence of Hardship Memoirs
Stephanie Land doesn’t frame her story as an inspiring tale of bootstrapping, a blueprint for others, or evidence that grit and determination are all it takes to escape poverty.
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Oh, the Places Rage Will Take You: “Last Woman Standing” Reckons with Comedy’s Predators
As a culture, are we fully invested in seeking justice for women who have suffered at the hands of men?
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Face the Strange: Dani Shapiro Maps Her Family Secrets in “Inheritance”
“All my life, I had known there was a secret,” Dani Shapiro writes. “What I hadn’t known: the secret was me.”
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Andrea Gibson’s “Lord of the Butterflies” Celebrates Constant Transformation
In their fifth collection of poetry, Lord of the Butterflies, Andrea Gibson resists tidy narratives in favor of dramatizing a life that’s vibrant with constant transformation.
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