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BitchTapes: Even more SXSW Favorites
Our Music Editor Katie Presley was at SXSW Music Fest in Austin last week, and all this month she’s highlighting the best feminist music she discovered in the Lone Star State.
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Creating a Lush World of Trans Woman Literature: An Interview with Writer and Fierce Trans Femme, Kai Cheng Thom
So on the one hand, famous trans writers are elevated into this intensely fetishized status, and then on the other, they’re taken down and exiled for not being good enough.
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Street of Miracles: In Kai Cheng Thom's New Novel, Trans Femmes of Color Save Each Other
Thom maps the Street of Miracle’s inter-community contours, where there’s sisterhood, protection, and deep love—and also jealousy, internalized oppression, political differences, different amounts of privilege, and lovers quarrels.
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The Fairy Tale That Won’t Die: Disney Revives the Fantasy of Captivity and Monsters for Young Girls
Disney is poised to cash in on a new generation of girls who’ll want to be just like Belle.
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New Music Monday: Lizzo
Born in Houston, now based in Minneapolis, singer/dancer/world dominator Lizzo took Austin by storm during SXSW this year. As far as we’re concerned, the world is her stage. All hail queen Lizzo!
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Reading Chimamanda Adichie Today: On Racism and transphobia in feminism
I had to wonder how Adichie’s recent responses to trans folks failed her own feminist politics in her new book, Dear Ijeawele.
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BitchTapes: SXSW 2017 Wrap-up
From a festival of almost 2,500 bands, here are some of the best things we’ve seen at SXSW music festival this year.
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Heads Up, Media: Racism is Not a “Controversy”
Why are we seeing some of the most disturbing revelations of racism, xenophobia, and hate speech filed neatly away under the vague header of “controversy”?
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Truth > Tax Leaks, Cover Ups, and Woke Misogynists
Uncovering the truth on Trump, Michael Brown, and “Woke Misogyny”
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Paying Homage to the Queen of Teen Mean, Daria Morgendorffer: 20 Years Later, The Sarcasm Still Delights
Daria works against the idea of women as caregivers, or as primarily responsible for tending to others emotions and swaps it out with juvenile humor.
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