Culture
Backtalk: Best Wishes for 2017
Amy and Dahlia share six wishes for 2017, and talk about Saturday Night Live, good trouble, and the best cable channels to have when you’re home with your family. Plus reminiscing about Felicity’s epic haircut.
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It’s Jane’s House—We Just Live in It: Brontë, Feminism, and the Gothic Tradition
The themes and tropes Jane Eyre combined so brilliantly—patriarchy and male control, female dopplegangers, and, of course, gothic houses—remain ever-present in literature and popular culture.
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Ambition Condition: Women, writing, and the problem of success
By not owning up to her ambitions—whether they’re in the public or private realms—a writer feeds the machine that discounts the aspirations and talents of all women writers.
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Of Woman Borg: Bionic betties, radical robots, and the evolution of the artificial woman
It’s no shock that feminine cyborgs are used exclusively in ads targeting young males; they tap right into stock fantasies of female subservience.”
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Good Looking Out: Siri Hustvedt's New Essay Collection is an Exercise in Interdisciplinary Curiosity
Hustvedt dispenses with illusions of academic objectivity and doesn’t hesitate to share her thoughts and feelings throughout these pieces.
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Pins and Needles: Tuesday Bassen Fights the Fast-Fashion Powers Ripping off Indie Designers
Early in 2016, Bassen’s art started showing up in an unwelcome place: On the website of fast-fashion mainstay Zara, uncredited.
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No Disrespect: Black Women and the Burden of Respectability
The public image of black female dignity is routinely attacked by a 24/7 media-industrial complex that serves up a steady stream of caricature.
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How to Raise a Boy in 1979: Navigating love, gender, and punk music in “20th Century Women”
Unlike Mills’s other boy-meets-girl, girl-somehow-saves-boy plots, the women are the backbone of this film.
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2016 Reading Challenge: 50 Books by Women of Color
If you don’t seek out new voices, it’s easy to fall into reading books primarily, if not solely, by white authors.
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Pantsuit on Fire: The Founder of a Facebook Community Cashes In
Chamberlain, who is neither an activist nor an author, is cashing in on what amounts to the labor of strangers.
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