Culture

Randa Jarrar, an Arab American woman with short brown hair, holds her hand up to her face as she looks away from the camera

“Love Is an Ex-Country” Triumphantly Prioritizes the Power of Joy

March 23, 2021 at 11:00am

Joy is a way to heal people and to move forward in a world that’s constantly throwing ridiculous things at us. Read more »

Kaitlyn Greenidge, a dark-skinned Black woman with long black locs, stands outside and smiles slightly

“Libertie” Questions the Nature of Freedom Itself

by Jordan Taliha McDonald

March 23, 2021 at 9:44am

What does it mean to be free? Read more »

an illustration by Tara Anand of a South Asian Gen Z kid holding up their phone and their parent reading a newspaper as they sit next to each other on a couch giving each other the side-eye while the world burns outside the window behind them.

Boomer to Zoomer: Grim Generational Relations Aren’t An Accident

by Mary Retta

March 22, 2021 at 1:29pm

There is only one winner in a generation war, and it’s not millennials or boomers or Gen Z—it’s capitalism. Read more »

Gabbi Tuft, a white woman with long blond hair, wears a black tank top reading “she bad.”

Cis Gatekeepers Have No Place in Trans Stories

by Britni de la Cretaz

March 19, 2021 at 9:19am

Allow trans people to tell trans stories on their own terms and through their own lens. Read more »

Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) in WandaVision.

Is “WandaVision” Celebrating or Condemning the Military?

by Amelia Merrill

March 18, 2021 at 11:23am

WandaVision is unsure of its footing when it comes to S.W.O.R.D. and the FBI. Read more »

12 AAPI Organizations to Support Amid Increasing Anti-Asian Violence

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

March 17, 2021 at 2:29pm

Listen, donate, and take action. Read more »

a photo of journalists sitting down at a press conference writing in notebooks

We Owe It to Women Journalists to Protect Them from Harassment

by s.e. smith

March 17, 2021 at 11:54am

The stakes for women journalists, especially BIPOC women journalists, are possibly higher than they’ve ever been. Read more »

Set in the 1980s, the Yi family stands in a field in rural Arkansas. From left to right: Alan Kim skipping joyfully, Steven Yeun, in the foreground, puts his hands on his hips, Noel Kate Cho smiles and skips, and Han Ye-ri has her arms at her sides

In Its Joy, “Minari” Expands the Boundaries of the American Dream

by Hannah Bae

March 17, 2021 at 10:00am

The art of storytelling involves a series of critical decisions about what you leave in and what you edit out. Read more »

a purple, pink, and yellow mixed-media portrait of Queen Latifah, a fat Black woman, with painted strokes and symbols featuring a black and white photo by Al Pereira. She wears a tall weaved headdress, matching jacket, and her finger by her mouth

Her House: Queen Latifah Recreated the Rom-Com in Her Image

by Cate Young

March 17, 2021 at 9:00am

Queen Latifah’s oeuvre demonstrates that satisfying Black rom-coms for fat women are possible, even if Hollywood is resistant to making them. Read more »

The Sarah Everard Case Proves That More Cops Won’t Make Women Safer

by Nicole Froio

March 16, 2021 at 1:57pm

We have to reframe how we think about women’s safety. Read more »

Best of Bitch

The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

by Sarah Mirk

June 17, 2014 at 10:29am

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 »