Culture
Did the Grammys Diversity Task Force Ultimately Benefit Women Artists?
In October, the Recording Academy created a diversity taskforce in response to criticism for the lack of female artists recognized by the 2018 Grammys.
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Set Yourself Free: How Generations of Black Women Have Fought Incarceration
Black women have historically fought constraint and oppression.
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Flaunting Freedom: The History of Louisiana’s 18th-Century Tignon Laws
We cannot discount how enslaved Black women used dress as a form of resistance.
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BitchTapes: Pleasure
Andrea Silva mines personal experience, the melodrama of Colombian telenovelas, and growing up singing at funerals from a young age to create music imbued with a hazy melancholy that explores love, sensuality, and femininity.
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Lane Moore On Surviving Lifelong Loneliness
I wanted to write a book for people like myself because no one writes for us.
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Every Rose Has Its Thorn: How “Schitt’s Creek" Mastered the Sharp Sitcom
It’s an honest depiction of a family employing productive optimism and pessimistic humor to survive.
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Plastic Pleasure: Hallie Lieberman On the Liberating Future of Sex Toys
Acceptance of sex toys is not necessarily an acceptance of women’s masturbation.
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The Misguided Pursuit of “Better” Manhood at American Fraternities
The dominant narrative around fraternities has long been one of peer pressure, blackout drinking, and cruel hazing rituals. So why are so many male students, especially white ones, as excited as ever to join them?
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The 2019 Super Bowl Commercials Were a Strange Pop-Culture Smörgåsbord
How would the Dude and Carrie ever, ever, ever find themselves in the same bar?
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