Culture
Sex Workers Deserve Better: Christine Pelisek Explains How The Grim Sleeper’s Victims Were Overlooked for 25 Years
The press mainly ignores street girls getting killed.
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There’s a Lot of Ways of Being Us: Jennifer Finney Boylan on Transgender Advocacy, Her Writing Career, and Caitlyn Jenner
There are now enough transgender writers that we don’t always have to talk about the experience of being trans and the cliche of transition.
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Our Nails Will Shine Forever: The History of Acrylics and Appropriation
Nails are emblems of honor.
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Small Change: Queer Feminist Characters Deserve “Happily Ever After” Romance Novels
I wanted the romance genre to have space for a character like Ginger.
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Popaganda: Life in Late Capitalism
“Late capitalism” is a phrase that was first used by Marxist theorists at the turn of the 20th century. Over that time, it’s been used in different ways by different people, but right now, it’s popping up all over as a both funny and cutting term to describe the absurdity and lack of dignity that... Read more »
Writing Between Resistance and Celebration: Two Black South African Poets On Writing, Urgency, And Changing Minds
It’s an interesting time to be a young poet in South Africa right now.
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And the Cultural Appropriation Prize Goes to...White Writers
When a white editor proposed an “appropriation prize,” other white editors launched a real and very public campaign to fund it.
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Erasing Hallie: Sofia Coppola’s Race Problem Predates “The Beguiled”
It never crossed Sofia Coppola’s mind that Hallie is a woman, too.
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Backtalk: Where’s the Justice? & Beguiling Whiteness
This week, Dahlia and Amy discuss the disappointing verdicts of both the mistrial in the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby and the acquittal of the police officer who murdered Philando Castile. They also get into the beguiling whiteness of The Beguiled, a film set during the Civil War... Read more »
20 years of Harry Potter: The Bitch Crew Remembers Their First Time at Hogwarts
Happy birthday, Harry Potter!
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