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Elizabeth Holmes, a young white woman with her blond hair in a ponytail, stands in a black turtleneck in a medical lab

Drop the Fry: Judging Elizabeth Holmes’s Voice Comes down to Bias

by Sadaf Ahsan
October 7, 2019 at 1:56pm
Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google Assistant have one thing in common: They all have female-identified voices and names. Read more »
a collage of Indigenous women hiking through the mountains

All Land is Sacred: Jolie Varela on the Healing Power of Hiking

by Evette Dionne
October 4, 2019 at 3:42pm
The Indigenous Women Hike is her “sacred fire.”  Read more »
a purple, pink, and yellow collage of a Black man holding binoculars to his eyes

Just Look Up: Are BIPOC Birding Communities Gaining Momentum?

by Bani Amor
October 4, 2019 at 11:43am
From books to social media to IRL meetups, and now TV, BIPOC birders are using varied mediums to get their communities outside. Read more »
a collage of a Black woman with a white headband and an orange swimsuit sits in front of a pool

Sailing Old Seas: The Seafarers Yacht Club Has a Legacy as Old as the Ocean

by Nneka M. Okona
October 4, 2019 at 10:21am
Though boating seems to be a luxurious activity reserved solely for the rich, famous, and otherwise wealthy, there’s one group that has long fought this misunderstanding, specifically for Black people. Read more »
Unpregnant authors Ted Caplan, left, and Jenni Hendricks

“Unpregnant” Offers a Radical Normalization of Abortion and Reproductive Health

by Mary Retta
October 3, 2019 at 12:29pm
Even in a time where reproductive choice is in terrifying peril, it’s still possible to feel empowered in our choices­­—including the choice to laugh. Read more »
a collage of Asian women traveling throughout the world

New Canon: A Roundtable about Travel Writing without the Other

by Bani Amor
October 3, 2019 at 9:53am
Literature about traveling and adventure has a long history of evoking an Orientalist imaginary of Asia as perpetually exotic and dominable. Read more »
a collage of huskies pulling a woman through snow that is light and navy blue

Running Forward: The Feminist Underbelly of the Dogsledding World

by Kelsey Camacho
October 3, 2019 at 8:52am
Regardless of gender, we all look the same in heavy parkas and down jackets. Read more »
a collage of hikers in colorful gear walking on top of prayer flags toward a mountain

Climbing Everest Isn’t a Bucket List Dream—It’s a Crisis of Overtourism

by Bani Amor
October 1, 2019 at 7:55am
How much more life, both human and environmental, must be sacrificed to satiate the Western adventurer’s unending thirst to check another box on a bucket list? Read more »
collage image of various images of mostly brown and Black people in the outdoors

Meet the People Paving New Paths in the Outdoors

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 30, 2019 at 10:01am
People from marginalized communities are becoming the new faces of the outdoors. Read more »
The cast of NBC's The Good Place in a red room in Season 3

Cord Jefferson Finds a (Good) Place for Pop Culture Optimism

by Cate Young
September 27, 2019 at 2:05pm
In 2016, Michael Schur’s The Good Place started as another quirky NBC comedy that then blossomed into a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Read more »

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Ms. Opinionated: I'm a Man. How Can I Help the Feminist Movement?

by Andi Zeisler
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Welcome to Ms. Opinionated, our weekly advice column dealing with questions of life, love, feminism, and pop culture. This week, a reader... Read more »

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 »

Game Changer: Why Gaming Culture Allows Abuse... and How We Can Stop It

Game Changer Illustration by Jasmine Silver.
by Katherine Cross
Winter 2013 • Habit{at}

You're a Bolshevik feminist jewess that hates white people… and you expect to be taken seriously when you're “critique-ing” ...

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