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To Be Young, Messy, and Black: “Luster” Depicts Millennial Black Girl Angst

by Vanessa Willoughby
August 27, 2020 at 10:00am
Edie refuses to practice tokenism to secure financial, personal, creative, and romantic stability. Read more »
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Very Online: Quarantine Is Changing Influencer Culture. Will It Last?

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
August 27, 2020 at 9:18am
In quarantine, influencer marketing is being tossed into harsher light. Read more »
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Subject to Change: The Pronoun Discourse Has Always Been Versatile

by Trimble
August 26, 2020 at 12:29pm
The singular “they” is an important survival tool for those of us who struggle to fit into the world as it currently is. Read more »
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal play Marianne and Connell, a white couple standing side by side in a bar with their arms wrapped around each other, on Normal People

Horny Cailíní: Irish Girls Get Their Onscreen Sexual Renaissance

by Jess Keefe
August 26, 2020 at 10:00am
The women at the center of these series proudly flaunt their brazen desire. Read more »
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BitchReads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read in August

by Evette Dionne
August 25, 2020 at 12:00pm
We’re late, we know. Read more »
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“Impersonation” Explores a Power Struggle Between Two Feminist Moms

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
August 25, 2020 at 10:28am
What can a woman and a mother with no money afford to say no to? Read more »
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“Aria” Looks at Revolution through the Eyes of Children

by Hillary Gerber
August 25, 2020 at 9:00am
Children can act as a conduit for the reader who doesn’t understand something political. Read more »
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“The Hierarchies” Imagines a World Where Sex Robots Have Human Impulses

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
August 24, 2020 at 10:01am
It’s a shocking and eye-opening debut, one that has me looking at my coffee maker a little differently. Read more »
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Allowed to Imagine: What We Lose When Migrant Folks Aren’t Able to Create

by Tina Vasquez
August 21, 2020 at 11:28am
There’s a rich and beautiful tapestry of migrant artists, writers, poets, and musicians. Read more »
Seth Rogen plays a millennial man and his relative; the two sit across the table from each other and make eye contact.

“An American Pickle” Finds Humor in Uniquely Jewish Hardship

by Rachel Klein
August 21, 2020 at 11:25am
Seth Rogen embodies both his own Jewish present and a collective and just-out-of-reach Jewish past.  Read more »

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The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

by Sarah Mirk
June 17, 2014 at 10:29am
In 1948, in a seventh grade classroom in Eugene, Oregon, a teacher dimmed the lights and flipped on 16mm projector. A film called Human... Read more »

In a Bizarre 1976 Comic Book, Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education

by Sarah Mirk
April 23, 2014 at 3:52pm
Last week, I came across a very strange comic book: in 1976, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which... Read more »

No Disrespect: Black Women and the Burden of Respectability

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by Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Summer 2012 • Fame + Fortune
Hollywood still filters (and distorts) the lives and histories of minorities through the eyes of the majority. Read more »

A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law
November 17, 2014 at 5:07pm
Nearly every Saturday morning, feminists of color hold Twitter discussions taking a deeper look at issues, such as gender violence. It’s the... Read more »