Culture
When Richard Met Donyale: The Duo That Challenged High Fashion’s White Lens
When Donyale Luna and Richard Avedon began their collaboration, glamour was still a race-evasive code for whiteness.
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Retrofitted: The Community Preserving Vintage Style, Not Vintage Values
For many members of the vintage community, living in the actual past would mean living in a time of increased oppression.
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Cleaned Up: “Strung Out” Complicates the Conversation about Women and Opioid Addiction
We can only help people if they’re alive; the only bottom you can’t recover from is death.
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An Ode to Diane Nguyen, Depressed Feminist Writer
“You’re responsible for your own happiness.”
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Paranormal Boyfriends, Purity Myths, and Practical Virgins: The Literature of Losing It
Being abstinent in these books is not empowering for female characters; instead, it’s a consequence of decisions enforced by their male counterparts.
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Presenting Our Alternative Oscars List Because the Academy Is Still White as Fuck
Cinema means so much to so many different people, and we hope this list is reflective of that.
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BitchTapes: Decolonizing Healing
In pop culture, eating disorders are often depicted as illnesses that visit solely white women, but that doesn’t reflect reality.
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Backtalk: Cleaning Up After “American Dirt”
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the controversy over the publishing industry and the book that’s too big to fail.
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Beyoncé Wrapped Capitalism in Orange Boxes and Called It Empowerment
Many people no longer consider wealth the gateway to freedom and power for Black people.
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