Culture
The Devil Wears Cornrows: Could Appropriation Lead to the End of Fashion?
A true reckoning of fashion’s debt might mean the end of houses, the end of fashion week, the end of “high” and “low,” the end of trend forecasts written by anyone who isn’t a 15-year-old brown girl from Chicago’s West Side.
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This Woman’s Work: FKA twigs’s “MAGDALENE” Dissects Female Martyrdom
FKA twigs not only treats her album’s namesake as a source of spiritual strength, but considers how often women are stripped of their agency and their voice—even when they’re the heroine of their own stories.
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On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia.
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What the Styling of Good Janet on “The Good Place” Shows about Sexist Character Design
With Good Janet versus Bad Janet, The Good Place uses fashion to signify goodness.
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Beyond Coming Out: 6 Lesbian Novels That Bring the Romance, and Sex
We deserve books that actively center our pleasure, too.
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BitchTapes: Sanctuary
Who better to create a playlist about sanctuaries than someone who spends the majority of her days surrounded by books?
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Warts and All: The Art of Being Dragged by Our Astrology Apps
It can be a relief to see that—via the stars or an app or a super accurate meme—we might be known, warts and all.
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Sharona Franklin Is Calling out Gucci for Exactly the Reason You Think
Sharona Franklin’s botanical jelly sculptures have been making waves online after the artist accused Gucci of stealing her work.
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On Becoming a Fraud in Central Florida
The show offers a sharp critique of the broader capitalist system that harms us all.
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Still Doubt Online Harassment Is Real? Read SheRatesDogs
Michaela Okland’s popular Twitter account is a critical tool of resistance for women.
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