Culture
License to Feel: “SOUR” Highlights the Unique Wisdom of Teen Girls
Rodrigo’s practice of sitting intently with her messy emotions—whether on her bathroom floor or in her car—seems like a metaphor for the recent seasons of quarantine.
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Romantic Resilience: Jamal Jordan Captures the Beauty of Queer Love in Color
This book is offering a unique gift to the world, one that presents a new story with new definitions and new possibilities.
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Afrominimalism Offers a New Vision for Black People
Minimalism’s loudest voices have historically been white people who consistently overlook how people of color, especially Black people, have to approach minimalism differently.
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Of Course Cis People Are Being Weird About Elliot Page’s Body
Many cis people have a long way to go when it comes to thinking critically about talking about trans people and their bodies.
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Cruella Is an Irredeemable Villain—and Disney Should Keep Her That Way
Just because a villain is a woman doesn’t mean she needs to be redeemed.
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#MeFirst: Lady Gaga Doesn’t Need to Name Her Rapist
Treating survivors as a monolith only perpetuates further violence against them.
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Finally, a Neurodivergent Family Saves the World
Just because a routinely ableist society often overlooks and underestimates neurodiverse people, that doesn’t mean they aren’t integral to the world around us.
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Kristen Arnett’s “With Teeth” Packs a Huge Bite
As unreliable a character as Sammie is, the reader knows she’s not a liar.
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Cute Overload: Pride, Kink, and the “Smol Bean–Industrial Complex”
It’s important to remember that respectability will not save us.
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Jessica Darling Saved Teen Girls in the 2000s. Can She Do It Again?
For a lonely teenage girl looking for a reflection of herself in a culture that disdains her, a brutally honest, interiority-heavy YA book can be a lifeline.
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