Media
Strength In Numbers: Independent Outlets Have Outsized Impact
The impact is proven. Trust independent media.
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Let’s Not Eat Cake: Tina Fey’s Sugar Crash
Tina Fey is representative of scores of women—many of whom are white—who deem themselves “woke,” but don’t have a grasp on oppressions as systems.
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Long Interviews with Hideous Men: Stop Telling Us to “Understand” Bigotry
Do we really need to know the history of and justifications for someone’s beliefs or actions to understand that those beliefs and actions are objectively bad?
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White Women Need to Do Better: The Death of “My Favorite Murder”
It’s so important that we not only make sure to represent victims of color well, but also cease to promote or accept tone policing, respectability politics, and straight, white people serving up opinions that go unchecked.
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This Ombud’s For You: What the End of the NYT’s Public Editor Means
Right now seems like an especially weird time to get rid of a first-line advocate for media transparency.
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Behind The Scenes: Why Writers Publish With Bitch
Ever thought about why writer’s write for Bitch? Here’s a little story.
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Backtalk: May Day & Handmaid Horrors
Amy and Dahlia talk about May Day activism across the globe and the difficulties and opportunities in imagining work systems that work better. And they dig into The Handmaid’s Tale series, examining the novel’s grounding in anti-Blackness, as well as where the show diverges from the novel... Read more »
Clinton Derangement Syndrome: The Clicks That Keep on Giving
Why can’t we accept that women whom we believe are unlikable for “legitimate” reasons are also subjected to misogyny?
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Popaganda: Journalism in a "Post Truth" World
Media is the way we come to understand the world and what happens in it and what we as regular people can do to shape our societies. And this role, this reality, has been altered, in some pretty big and disturbing ways thanks to Trump. To help make sense of this new dystopian media landscape,... Read more »
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