Books
All That You Change Changes You: A Conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
If you know anything about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, you probably know she’s a tough femme whose work spans a wide and ever-growing range of conversations, topics, feelings, and experiences.
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Watch Janet Mock and "Sense 8" Star Jamie Clayton Talk Gender and Sci-Fi
In Sense 8, Jamie Clayton and Freema Agyeman play a couple named Nomi and Amanita.
New Netflix show Sense 8 is a thriller about eight strangers whose lives become intertwined.
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I Love Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts"
Poet, essayist, and genre-bender Maggie Nelson. Photo by Harry Dodge.
The Argonauts is a nuanced examination of gender, trans and nonbinary identities, queer sexualities, queer family-making, and how all of these play into each other. Its feminism is a given.
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Sneak Peek of Petra Collins' New Photo Book "Babe"
“As a young female artist, I never saw a place for my work, didn’t see images I felt reflected me anywhere,” writes 21-year-old photgrapher Petra Collins in the introduction to new photo book Babe.... Read more »
Kelly Link Discusses the Feminist Fairy Tales of Angela Carter
A reluctant vampire queen. A randy captive princess. A wolf child who finds her only friend in the mirror. You’ll find these characters and more between the unassuming French folds of the newly released edition of Angela Carter’s classic 1979 short story collection ... Read more »
After 20 years, Amelia's Notebook is Wrapping Up
When Marissa Moss was growing up, she kept journals in composition books with speckled black and white covers.
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Jessica Hopper is Planting a Flag for Feminist Music Criticism
Our work can be really tokenized because of how, lots of times, women’s work is not recorded. It’s not canonized.
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Carol Weston Knows All About Teen Girl Problems
When I was growing up, my mom got me a subscription to Girls’ Life magazine. When it came every month, the first thing I did was turn to the ... Read more »
A New Book Looks At How Working Women Are Shortchanged
An Equal Pay Day protest—photo by the Australian Services Union.
We all know that women across the United States make less money than men. But on top of that, the industries that employ majority... Read more »


















