Politics
Women Do the Majority of the Family Care. Can We Get Some Paid Leave?
More than two-thirds of the American public agrees that paid family leave should be available to all workers, even if they disagree about how it should be paid for.
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Backtalk: Student Moans
This week, Dahlia and Amy get upset about student loans. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign recently unveiled a student loan forgiveness plan as part of her platform, finally seriously centering the student debt crisis as something the government should help alleviate. How we talk about the student... Read more »
No More Pencils, No More Books: What’s Next after the Year of the Teachers’ Strike?
2019, while still young, has shown that it’s in the running to be yet another extraordinarily important one for America’s unions, with teachers still at the forefront.
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Prison Rape Is Not a Punch Line
How often have you heard someone chuckle about “dropping the soap”?
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Let Monarchy Reign: “We Are the Radical Monarchs” Shows How High Girls of Color Can Soar
“I began to imagine what a radical young girl’s social justice troop looked like; a group that centered and affirmed her experiences as a beautiful and brilliant Brown girl against so many societal pressures to conform to mainstream ideals of girlhood.”
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Heartbeat Bills Are Part of the Endgame for “Roe v. Wade”
Unprecedented levels of anti-abortion legislation at the state and national level are happening more frequently and becoming more extreme.
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Commander in Disbelief: A Timeline of Sexual Assault Allegations against Trump
While sexual-assault survivors take hits to their reputations, financial security, and personal safety, what do Trump and other men accused of sexual misconduct lose?
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Backtalk: That’s Not Consent. That’s Capitalism.
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the newest marketing ploy around consent: condoms that require four hands to open. These kinds of throwaway, viral products commodify ideas around sexual violence without actually working to solve a problem (while hoisting the blame for sexual assault away from... Read more »
#MeToo’s ‘Moment’ Isn’t Ending—It’s Just the First Step
Systemic and widespread institutional change is still desperately needed in order to ensure that positive outcomes for sexual-violence survivors match the fervor with which advocates have embraced the ethos of the #MeToo movement.
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Forget Thoughts and Prayers, School Shooting Survivors Need Mental Healthcare
While we know the names of those who died and those who killed them, we are just beginning to fully understand the impact that mass shootings have on the psyches of survivors.
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