Culture
There Is an Art to Showing up—and Rachel Wilkerson Miller Has Mastered It
“You have to take care of yourself first. And that doesn’t make you selfish.”
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Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of a TV Icon
I Dream of Jeannie is the only U.S. television show that has revolved around a female Arab character, which is quite sad given that she’s a make-believe caricature.
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Very Online: Wine Memes Are Taking over during Quarantine, and They’re Targeting Women
It’s not cute and relatable for a brand to keep pushing women toward alcohol during a pandemic.
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Reply Guys, Sliding into the DMs, and the Intensification of Parasocial Relationships
Though the reply guy doesn’t mean any offense and doesn’t intend to cause harm, his mere presence can suffocate the women he’s always replying to.
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So Wonderful and Warm: In “Watermelon Sugar,” Harry Styles Centers Women’s Euphoria
In “Watermelon Sugar,” women’s sexual bliss is the entire event.
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Girl Likes Girl: Lindsay Sproul Queers the Mean Girl in YA
Lindsay Sproul spoke to Bitch about crafting a shitty lesbian teen character.
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Demanding JoJo Siwa’s Sexuality Is a Means to Control Young, Female Entertainers
“You either die young or live long enough to see Jojo Siwa become a TikTok lesbian.”
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Worth of the Cool: The Cachet and Co-optation of Black Muslim Style
We run the internet, even if the rest of y’all aren’t aware of it.
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Sex Workers Have Always Known That Zoom Is Anti-sex. Now, the Public Knows Too.
As we move into a more permanent online existence, people should be paying more attention to issues of surveillance.
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Leave Summer Walker (And Her Nose) Alone
Instead of condemning Black women, like Summer Walker, who choose to alter their bodies, we should interrogate how the world made their existence in their inherited bodies hostile.
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