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a Latina woman wearing a brown fur coat sits in a car alongside an Asian woman with a black bob in Hustlers

Family Ties: “Hustlers” Promises Crime, but Delivers Matriarchy

by Jourdain Searles
September 18, 2019 at 2:51pm
Ramona frames all of her behaviors as acts of love, whether she’s teaching Destiny how to diversify her stripping moves or instructing the larger team of women on how to seduce, drug, and steal money from white, wealthy, and unsuspecting men. Read more »
Ella Balinska as Jane Kano (left), Elizabeth Banks as Susan Bosley, and Kristen Stewart as Sabina Wilson in Charlie's Angels. All three women stand next to each other.

BitchWatch: 7 Movies Feminists Should Watch This Fall

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 18, 2019 at 1:03pm
This fall, we’re anticipating movies about women astronauts, another Charlie’s Angels reboot, and a thriller all about socioeconomic class.  Read more »
​​​​​​​Tina Belcher, an animated teenaged girl, is wearing glasses and has black hair with bangs

BitchWatch: 9 TV Shows Feminists Should Watch this Fall

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 18, 2019 at 9:04am
From Netflix to cable, fall television is filled with feminist TV shows. Read more »
a dark-skinned, dark-haired man in a loincloth stands in a river, looking toward the camera

Burning Issue: “Embrace of the Serpent“ Sees Capitalist Destruction through Indigenous Eyes

by Mallika Khanna
September 17, 2019 at 3:10pm
The film subverts a colonialist narrative by presenting the experience of a white man on Amazon land—not through his eyes, but through those of the people he’s exploiting. Read more »
Sophia Lillis, a white girl with short, red hair, looks into the ether in It Chapter One

Blood Sport: The Most Feminist Part of “IT Chapter Two” Is a Staple in Horror

by Jill Grunenwald
September 17, 2019 at 10:56am
There’s one genre that has never shied away from depicting menstruation: horror. Read more »
two Latinx men, one wearing oxygen, embrace in HBO's Alternate Endings documentary

Ashes to Ashes, Outer space to Oceans: Who Gets to Have an Alternative Death in America?

by s.e. smith
September 11, 2019 at 4:56pm
Many of the faces of “alternative death” are white, and there’s much less engagement with the cultural, community, and social traditions of communities of diverse color and faith in America. Read more »
Normani, a young Black woman, sings on stage in a blue sparkly outfit.

What Critiques of Normani Reveal about Racist Expectations of Black Women Artists

by Brooklyn White
September 11, 2019 at 4:02pm
Music critics and listeners alike give Black pop stars hell—especially when they’re women. Read more »
A photo of Ms Monopoly, a new board game from Hasbro. The game features an illustrated woman, presumably white, holding a coffee cup and staring at the camera with a soft smile.n

What Ms. Monopoly Shows about Our Cultural Unwillingness to Understand the Pay Gap

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 11, 2019 at 1:29pm
Despite potentially good intent, a presumably white woman in heels and doing a weird power pose on a board game about capitalism isn’t inspiring. Read more »
a Black woman with an afro reads a book while sitting on a window sill

BitchReads: 13 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read this September

by Evette Dionne
September 11, 2019 at 9:35am
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. Read more »
"Girls and Their Cats" author BriAnne Wills, a white woman with dark hair, holds her cat, Tuck. There is a large plant in the background.

“Girls and Their Cats” and The Future of Cat Ladies

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 10, 2019 at 12:20pm
“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.” Read more »

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