Culture
Born to Protest: Legal Trailblazer Pauli Murray Takes Her Rightful Place in History
Pauli Murray’s refusal to conform helps explain why this influential legal thinker and activist trailblazer is so little known.
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Small Revolutions: “Dumplin’” Shows the Value in Empowering Fat Children
Willowdean’s ability to not only cope with but actively challenge systems that discriminate against fat girls is not coincidental.
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Reeling in Romance: How “You’ve Got Mail” Tried to Make Catfishing Romantic
Before we knew about catfishing, swiping left or right on Tinder, and having friendships that exist entirely within the digital confines of Facebook, there was “You’ve Got Mail.”
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Bitch in a Box: Creepy Holidays
These picks will satisfy everyone on your list who is more “strange and unusual” than “holly and jolly.”
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Love Removal Machine: The Future of Outsourcing Sex
The idea of robots replacing sex workers is a [labor issue] that is confronting society as a whole, with the word ‘sex’ in it to make it spicy.
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Word Travels: The Social Network Sex Workers Built
Many “respectable” women are discovering the strategies that sex workers use—which are actually the same ones used by all women outside the charmed circle of privilege.
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Backtalk: Who Gets to Make Mistakes?
This week, Dahlia and Amy round up some of the big hits of bad takes. From Lena Dunham’s letter from the editor where she admits to lying to protect a rapist to a weird piece dissecting Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” music video, who gets to make mistakes over and over again? Writers... Read more »
Love Is a War: “If Beale Street Could Talk” Presents a Warped Fairytale
It’s extraordinary that such a sensual tale of young love could also tackle the trauma born out of America’s faulty criminal-justice system.
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Bitch in a Box: Gifts for Young People
Shopping for young people doesn’t have to be intimidating.
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Sugary Slope: “The New Romantic” Recycles Tired Tropes about Transactional Relationships
Some sugar babies criticize prostitution in order to distance themselves from the labels and stigma associated with it.
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