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Popaganda Episode: Volunteers

From a teenager farmworker in Seattle to the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, stories about going above and beyond.  Writer Rafia Zakaria explores the complicated dynamics of voluntourism—the trend of people from richer countries combining international travel and... Read more »

Ursula K. Le Guin's Perfect Response to an All-Male Sci-Fi Anthology

A letter from 1987 proves Le Guin has always been a badass.  Read more »

BitchTapes: Forgotten Women of Funk and Soul

You’ve heard of Chaka Khan and Grace Jones. But this mixtape digs deep, highlighting funk and soul performers who are have been overlooked.  Read more »

"2 Dope Queens" is the Hands-Down Funniest Podcast I've Ever Heard

Comedian Phoebe Robinson talks with us about the show, which delves into issues of gender, race, and pop culture.  Read more »

The Raw Essays of "So Sad Today" Make Me Feel Less Alone With My Anxiety

Melissa Broder needed a safe space to vent about her feelings of anxiety and depression. So she turned to Twitter.  Read more »

Harriet Tubman Will Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill

The Treasury Department is reportedly going to announce the change today. The plans also reportedly include putting leaders of the women’s suffrage movement on the back of the $10 bill, and incorporating civil rights era leaders into the $5 bill Read more »

Bioliteracy Sounds Awesome, But It Needs To Be Inclusive, Too.

 Public hackerspaces dedicated to DIY science are trying to make high-tech tools accessible to all. Read more »

I Used to Walk for the Cure. Now I Work for Environmental Justice.

After my mom and aunt both died of cancer, I realized I needed to focus on the toxins around us.  Read more »

A Joke in the Powerpuff Girls Reboot is a Sucker Punch to Trans Women

In an episode about roller derby, the show deploys the tired “man in a dress” joke.  Read more »

The First Indigenous Comic-Con is Happening This Year

“In this nerd pop culture era we live in, especially for Native folks, we're marginalized in those spaces.” Read more »

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The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

In 1948, in a seventh grade classroom in Eugene, Oregon, a teacher dimmed the lights and flipped on 16mm projector. A film called Human... Read more »

All Hail the Queen?: What Do Our Perceptions of Beyoncé's Feminism Say about us?

The policing of feminist cred is the real moral contradiction. Read more »

It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

The marginalization of transgender women in feminism is not new, but the decades-long debate has taken on new dimension thanks to social media and the ease of finding strangers’ personal information online. Read more »