Culture
“Bad Hair” Makes a Tangled Mess of Black Women’s Woes
In his quest to create a fable about Black women’s hair, Justin Simien overlooks the actual function it plays in Black women’s lives.
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Very Online: You Can’t Escape Death on TikTok
We’re still learning what to do with death, both online and off.
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Pausing the Panic Button: Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?
Moral panics about sexually disturbing or explicit media are hardly new or uncommon.
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Female Trouble: Why Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca” Still Possesses our Imaginations
What makes Daphne du Maurier’s prose feel fresh and unique to this day is just how real it is in capturing the way women observe.
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Meme and My Squad: The Teens Tagging their Way to Queer Utopia
Memes can offer familiarity, freedom, and levity in a world that, more often than not, flattens and invalidates queer experience.
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Trolling in the Deep: Deepfakes Are the Latest Innovation in Online Shaming
The deepfake is a form of public shaming.
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Mind Interrupted: The Horrifying Manipulation of Black Women’s Psyches
The traumatic spectacles of these transformations often reveal so little about the interiority of the fictional Black women who experience them.
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BitchWatch: 15 Shows Feminists Should Watch This Fall
This list has it all, from scary shows to calming ones.
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BitchReads: 11 Books Feminists Should Read in October
For those updating their fall reading lists, we have books for everyone.
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Billie Eilish’s Body Is Not Ours to Claim
“I feel you watching, always. And nothing I do goes unseen.”
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