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Figure Skating’s Rebels and Rulebreakers: Three Women Who Pushed Against Olympic Skating's Rules
Sad as I am to write this, it must be said: the Olympics are almost over. Part of me is thankful for this, as I’ve watched more hours of TV in the past week than my body or brain can adequately handle. As always, I have found the Olympics to be patronizing, exhausting, and simultaneously bloated... Read more »
Ms. Opinionated: I'm a Man. How Can I Help the Feminist Movement?
Welcome to Ms. Opinionated, our weekly advice column dealing with questions of life, love, feminism, and pop culture. This week, a reader writes in with one of... Read more »
Just Eat It: A Comic About Food and Cultural Appropriation
This comic is about the cultural appropriation of food—the tendency of people to easily co-opt “ethnic” cuisine as their own, while simultaneously obsessing over the “authenticity” of food.
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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.
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Black to the Future: How Women in Pop Are Carrying the Mantle of Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a way to project Blackness into the future—not merely as existing, but as a critical and significant part of it.
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Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction
Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture.
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My Challenge for 2014: Read 50 Books by Writers of Color
What do you do when you’ve already read everything by Octavia Butler? (photo from Cultural Front)
Last year, I decided to read 50 books by writers of color.
This idea... Read more »
Three Authors Discuss Their Favorite Romance Novels Featuring People of Color
For the week around Valentine’s Day, writer Jessica Luther is writing a series of three articles about gender, race, and sexuality in romance novels. ... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: Navigating Long-Distance Relationships
Each week, artist Erika Moen explores some aspect of sex and reports back on the result for Oh Joy Sex Toy. This week: Erika and her partner Matt discuss long-distance relationships and the ins-and-outs of sexting.
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Popaganda Episode: Olympic Spectacle
The most competitive sport in the Olympics, I would argue, is storytelling. Everything from the opening ceremony to the national uniforms athletes wear is carefully planned to create a specific story about the unique identity of countries (I'm not sure what story ... Read more »
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