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BitchWatch: 9 TV Shows Feminists Should Watch this Fall

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 18, 2019 at 9:04am
From Netflix to cable, fall television is filled with feminist TV shows. Read more »
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Burning Issue: “Embrace of the Serpent“ Sees Capitalist Destruction through Indigenous Eyes

by Mallika Khanna
September 17, 2019 at 3:10pm
The film subverts a colonialist narrative by presenting the experience of a white man on Amazon land—not through his eyes, but through those of the people he’s exploiting. Read more »
Sophia Lillis, a white girl with short, red hair, looks into the ether in It Chapter One

Blood Sport: The Most Feminist Part of “IT Chapter Two” Is a Staple in Horror

by Jill Grunenwald
September 17, 2019 at 10:56am
There’s one genre that has never shied away from depicting menstruation: horror. Read more »
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Ashes to Ashes, Outer space to Oceans: Who Gets to Have an Alternative Death in America?

by s.e. smith
September 11, 2019 at 4:56pm
Many of the faces of “alternative death” are white, and there’s much less engagement with the cultural, community, and social traditions of communities of diverse color and faith in America. Read more »
Normani, a young Black woman, sings on stage in a blue sparkly outfit.

What Critiques of Normani Reveal about Racist Expectations of Black Women Artists

by Brooklyn White
September 11, 2019 at 4:02pm
Music critics and listeners alike give Black pop stars hell—especially when they’re women. Read more »
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What Ms. Monopoly Shows about Our Cultural Unwillingness to Understand the Pay Gap

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 11, 2019 at 1:29pm
Despite potentially good intent, a presumably white woman in heels and doing a weird power pose on a board game about capitalism isn’t inspiring. Read more »
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BitchReads: 13 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read this September

by Evette Dionne
September 11, 2019 at 9:35am
There is so much to read in so little time, which is one of the myriad reasons I love curating the BitchReads list on a (semi)-regular basis. Read more »
"Girls and Their Cats" author BriAnne Wills, a white woman with dark hair, holds her cat, Tuck. There is a large plant in the background.

“Girls and Their Cats” and The Future of Cat Ladies

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 10, 2019 at 12:20pm
“I definitely think that the qualities people don’t like in cats are the same qualities that men especially don’t particularly like in women: that we’re independent, that we don’t need them.” Read more »
Courtney Sauls as Brooke Morgan, left, and Nia Jerver as Kelsey Phillips in Dear White People. They are two Black women who are kissing on the end of a bed.

A Quick History of TV’s Elusive Quest for Complex Black Lesbians

by Jaelani Turner-Williams
September 6, 2019 at 5:41am
Characters are being given more complexity onscreen, as they are offered the chance to explore their queerness in ways typically reserved for white queer women. Read more »
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Very Online: Why Does the Internet Keep Trying to Sell Us Bullshit Vaginal Healthcare?

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 5, 2019 at 2:56pm
At the very least, social media platforms can make it more difficult for harmful healthcare products to gain massive followings. Read more »

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by Sarah Mirk
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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 »

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Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

by Katherine Cross
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For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

What I Learned About Gender and Power from Sailor Moon

by Soleil Ho
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My life began in 1995 — the year I turned eight and became a divorced kid.    Read more »