Literature
Bitch in a Box: Creepy Holidays
These picks will satisfy everyone on your list who is more “strange and unusual” than “holly and jolly.”
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20th Century Boy: In the 1930s, the Word “Transsexual” Didn't Exist in the English Language. So Laura Dillon Had to Label Herself.
No literature at all existed to guide those female-bodied people who wished to become men.
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Dear Lane: “How To Be Alone” is Vulnerable, Funny, and Profoundly Healing
How To Be Alone gave me closure for trauma.
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Turning Fury Into Fuel: Three Women Authors on Publishing’s New Investment in Anger
Infiltrating the toxic architecture, learning and exposing its mechanics, cutting the wires, and burning it all down is my type of Trojan Horse chess play—being strategic and precise, turning fury into fortitude.
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Political Revisioning: How Men Police Women’s Anger in Writing Workshops
Our bodies and the way we are visibly coded determines if our anger can be “justified” in the eyes of the viewer.
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Et Tu, Brutes: Donna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics.
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2018 Was the Summer of the Asian Beach Read
Having access to the “beach read” label feels like acceptance—the ability to reach audiences who might see our work as a source of pleasure instead of education.
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Girl on a Sexist Bandwagon: The Consequences of Publishing’s “Gone Girl” Craze
In these books, certain women are allowed to be messy, make mistakes, and commit heinous crimes while also being presented as anti-heroines who are simply ensnared in systems larger than themselves.
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Backtalk: Don’t Waste Hannah Gadsby’s Time
This week, Dahlia and Amy dig into Hannah Gadsby’s tremendous, heartbreaking, and honest Nanette. Gadsby’s Netflix special gives us insight into what it means to to tell one’s story to wide acceptance—at one’s own expense. Using comedy as an example, Gadsby asks: Is it enough to be in... Read more »
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