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Korra, a brown-skinned woman with short, messily cut brown hair, holds fire in her palm and looks out from a cave. Her eye is injured.

“Legend of Korra” Shows How to Navigate PTSD While Fighting Injustice

by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
September 10, 2020 at 10:01am
Legend of Korra shows TV viewers that it’s possible to manage trauma—even while continuing the fight for justice. Read more »
Daisy Coleman, a white woman with shoulder-length blond hair and a neck tattoo, looks at the camera

Trauma Fishbowl: Reality TV Is Costing Survivors More Than Privacy

by s.e. smith
September 10, 2020 at 9:00am
These events are a stark reminder of the price of fame. Read more »
A woman with a bun holds a book over her face.

Verbalizing the Self: Why Bisexuals Are Fighting to Update the Definition of Bisexuality

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 9, 2020 at 11:35am
Merriam-Webster finally changed their definition of bisexuality. Is it a win for bisexuals, or more of the same? Read more »
collage of a black woman in a wedding dress constructed in cotton, fashion magazines, slave notices and vintage slave photography

Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery

by Ayanna Dozier
September 9, 2020 at 8:55am
If these cinematic perceptions of slavery are committed to memory, then we might accept the plantation as a mere backdrop to terror rather than the very site of it. Read more »
The strawberry dress by Lirika Matoshi is a glittery midi dress with puffy sleeves and strawberries on it.

How a $490 Strawberry Dress Became Queer Culture

by Alaina Leary
September 8, 2020 at 9:57am
“Be my girlfriend: You buy the pink strawberry dress and I’ll buy the black,” could almost be a 2020 pickup line. Read more »
A photo of Angela Chen, who has white-blond hair, glasses, and red lipstick and wears a dark green dress.

Dethroning Romance: Angela Chen Archives the Evolution of Asexuality

by Julie Kliegman
September 8, 2020 at 8:58am
“I write about how asexuality has become a sexual identity, but it can also be thought of as just a way of living that doesn’t center sex.” Read more »
Brandee Evans plays Mercedes, a Black woman wearing a long, black wig, and standing among other Black women in a glittery, two-piece suit

Hustle & Glow: “P-Valley” Puts Black Southern Strippers in the Spotlight

by Jourdain Searles
September 3, 2020 at 10:55am
The show is an expansive portrait of poverty, racism, misogyny and the Black Southern pride that pushes back against oppression. Read more »
A Black woman sits on a bench and reads a book. Her hair is in long braids, she’s wearing a dress, and she’s smiling.

BitchReads: 13 YA Books Feminists Should Read in September

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 2, 2020 at 10:25am
Welcome to our inaugural YA monthly BitchReads list! Read more »
collage image of young stylish women—one brown, white, and Black—hanging outside with varying expressions ranging from serious to playful

All Together Now: Novels Fight the Myth of the Mean Girl

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 2, 2020 at 9:00am
These new YA protagonists aren’t afraid of their power or the power that their confidence might instill in readers. Read more »
a stone statue depicts a couple not getting along

Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality

by Fiona Bell
September 1, 2020 at 9:03am
Mutual dislike and violence are not an unfortunate bug in the heteropatriarchal system; they’re fundamental to it. Read more »

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