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Rethinking Legacy: "Tastemakers" is a Starting Point for the Problematic History of Recipes and Food Media

January 14, 2022 at 10:32am

The James Beard award winner Mayukh Sen’s first book invites trouble, but more questions come up in the process. Read more »

The Audacity of Confidence: Is It Imposter Syndrome or Is It Patriarchy?

by Adrienne Lawrence

January 12, 2022 at 10:57am

At least 70 percent of people are estimated to experience this profound sense of phrenic inadequacy at some point in their lives, resulting in anxiety, lack of self-confidence, depression, frustration, and more. Read more »

Ivy Queen, a light-skinned Latine woman with long blonde hair and bold makeup, sings into a microphone over a digitally collaged purple and magenta futuristic background.

Whitewashed History: The “Loud” Podcast Amplifies Reggaeton’s Overlooked Black Roots

by Jasely Molina

January 11, 2022 at 2:30pm

Ivy Queen’s insightful podcast “Loud” examines reggaeton’s past, present, and future. Read more »

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5 Feminist Albums That Got Us Through December

by DeAsia Paige

December 31, 2021 at 10:00am

This month we listened to Tierra Whack, Alicia Keys, ZOLA, and more. Read more »

A digital collage over a green background of Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun and HoYeon Jung as Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, Tina Turner in Tina, Margaret Qualley as Alex and Rylea Nevaeh Whittet as Maddy in Maid.

13 Shows and Movies We Loved in 2021

by Bitch HQ

December 30, 2021 at 10:00am

From the unexpected buzz around Squid Game’s horrifying meditation on the problem of debt in South Korea to the catharsis of Mayday’s feminist revenge. Read more »

Cicely Tyson as Pittman in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Binta in Roots, Harriet Tubman in A Woman Called Moses, and Mrs. Browne in The Women of Brewster Place

The Movies That Made Cicely Tyson a National Treasure

by Evette Dionne

December 29, 2021 at 9:28am

A digital collage of a thin, hunched young white man looking into the camera, a white woman with bold white and black hair and red lipstick smirking, and a Black woman with a white flower in her hair singing with her eyes closed.

9 Shows and Movies We Hated in 2021

by Bitch HQ

December 28, 2021 at 10:00am

These are some of the biggest disappointments we saw this year. Read more »

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BitchReads: 11 Books We Loved Reading in 2021

by Bitch HQ

December 27, 2021 at 10:00am

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Sweet Hereafter: The Bitter Past and Promising Future of Sugarcane

by Alicia Kennedy

December 22, 2021 at 3:59pm

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Please, Take the Blue Pill: "The Matrix Resurrections" Review

by Grace Lavery

December 22, 2021 at 3:45pm

Down the rabbit hole goes Thomas Anderson and so, therefore, must we, into “The Matrix Resurrections.” Read more »

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It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

by Tina Vasquez

February 17, 2014 at 1:26pm

The marginalization of transgender women in feminism is not new, but the decades-long debate has taken on new dimension thanks to social media and the ease of finding strangers’ personal information online. Read more »