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Refresh and Rebuild: Plotting the Future of New York’s Most Conservative Borough
“We get a bad narrative that it’s Trumpville, that it’s racist,” Jasmine Robinson, who moved to Staten Island from the Bronx when she was 17, tells Bitch. “That’s not all of Staten Island.”
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Fixed It For You!: The COVID-19 Pandemic is Not a “Cozy Catastrophe”
Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is actually kind of fun for you (if you don’t give a shit about other people).
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Celebrity Pandemic Posts Have Us Wondering—Do We Need Famous People?
Celebrities are really leaning into saccharine nonsense.
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Very Online: Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Tried to Make Capitalism “Cool”
Bloomberg set a dangerous precedent, creating yet another space where the wealthy can skirt social-media restrictions—and do so in a way that makes users who are Very Online cringe.
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Little Wins: Lucy Flores on Remaining Hopeful and Critical through the 2020 Election
“As people of color, as immigrants and descendants of immigrants, it feels like we’re screwed. But we’re really not.”
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Backtalk: Who Gets to Make Mistakes?
This week, Dahlia and Amy round up some of the big hits of bad takes. From Lena Dunham’s letter from the editor where she admits to lying to protect a rapist to a weird piece dissecting Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” music video, who gets to make mistakes over and over again? Writers... Read more »
White Whine: The Past that Incels Long For Never Existed
The men who romanticize a period of time in which women and people of color were kept “in their place” have been raised by those who enjoyed the privileges of whiteness.
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Broken Systems: Brock Turner And The Campaign to Recall Judge Persky
Judge Persky is just one example of a larger broken system.
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Douchebag Decree: Hey White People, Stop Calling the Cops on People of Color
Getting police involved in non-police matters and calling police on innocent people is active endangerment.
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Who Hears the Whisper: The Shitty Media Men List Excludes So Many
If a whisper network highlights the power of a sisterhood, it also underscores the exclusionary nature of sisterhood.
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