Culture
BitchReads: 13 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read this September
There is so much to read in so little time, which is one of the myriad reasons I love curating the BitchReads list on a (semi)-regular basis.
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“Girls and Their Cats” and The Future of Cat Ladies
“I definitely think that the qualities people don’t like in cats are the same qualities that men especially don’t particularly like in women: that we’re independent, that we don’t need them.”
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A Quick History of TV’s Elusive Quest for Complex Black Lesbians
Characters are being given more complexity onscreen, as they are offered the chance to explore their queerness in ways typically reserved for white queer women.
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Very Online: Why Does the Internet Keep Trying to Sell Us Bullshit Vaginal Healthcare?
At the very least, social media platforms can make it more difficult for harmful healthcare products to gain massive followings.
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Close to Home: Donna Freitas on the Stalking Professor Who Irrevocably Changed Her Life
“It’s just a relief not to be alone with it anymore.”
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“Four Weddings” Is Still a Pop Culture Starting Point for Sign Language
It helps not to think of a signed language, a written language, and a spoken one as being in any way connected to each other at all, but to recognize them as distinct, each one a living, breathing entity.
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In Hot Water: “The Kitchen” Is a Comic-Book Adaptation Whose Diversity Feels Forced
The film pushes a shallow image of female unity, flattening the complex characters from the comic into easily readable types.
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Very Online: The Chicken Sandwich Debacle Shows How Brands Co-Opt Black Twitter
Popeyes didn’t notice the opportunity to be found in responding to the Chick-fil-A tweet—until Black Twitter did.
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BitchTapes: Anti-Fascist Heavy Metal Tunes
Metal is too good for Nazis and there are a growing number of artists who agree.
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Hot Mic: Priyanka Chopra’s Selectively Woke Stardom Is a Strategic—and Risky—Decision
Diasporas and communities of color often feel that we must pedestalize even the least bit of representation that comes our way.
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