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The Political Power of Telling Abortion Stories

It’s always easy to take people’s rights away if you demonize them and take them out of the conversation, says Renee Bracey Sherman. Read more »

Hitting Home Run Feminist Pop: On "Slugger," Sadie Dupuis Infuses Pop With a Poetic Punk Ethos

Speedy Ortiz vocalist Sadie Dupuis is striking out on her own with a new solo album called “Slugger.” Read more »

Bedroom Dream Band: Jay Som Talks About Producing Her New Album By Herself

Musician Melina Duterte, who plays under the name Jay Som, produced her album “Turn Into” on her own and released it to the world on a whim. Read more »

Ask Bear: Should I Tell My Friends and Family I'm Poly?

Good for you that you were able to recognize love when it came along. Read more »

Egypt's Female-Fronted Metal Band Massive Scar Era Shreds a Whole New Sound

Cherine Amr and Nancy Mounir have been performing together for 11 years, emailing each other tracks across continents. Read more »

Unspoken Desire: Quiet New Film "Certain Women" Focuses on the Feelings That Go Unsaid

Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone make up the spot-on cast of this subtle film from director Kelly Reichardt. Read more »

High School Hillary: A Satirical Lifetime Series Imagines Hillary Clinton Running for High School Class President

The Young Hillary Diaries takes actual election garbage conspiracies and controversies and transports them back in time to where they belong: in a high school hallway in 1964. Read more »

Hungry Ghosts: An Interview with Chef and Author Soleil Ho

The author of new chapbook “Hungry Ghosts” talks about food, writing, and how there’s so much we’re unable to say with mere words. Read more »

Backtalk: Trump's Terribleness and Feminist Horror Films

A true Halloween horror show! We discuss the horrors of Donald Trump and how traumatic it is for many women to read every day about news of his history of sexual assault and harassment. Then, we talk with resident horror film buff Dahlia Grossman-Heinze about recommendations from our... Read more »

Missing the Anticipation: How the New Rocky Horror Lets Down Queer Fans

The original movie doesn’t seem to draw a line between queerness and sexual aggression, leaving a dark legacy for the series. Read more »

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Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

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

Sojourner Truth, Unveiled

The leaders of the [women's suffrage] movement trembled on seeing a tall, gaunt black woman in a gray dress and white turban,...

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The Forgotten History of the Women Who Shaped Modern Advertising

It's easy to dismiss advertising as an anti-feminist industry. Read more »

In a Bizarre 1976 Comic Book, Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education

Last week, I came across a very strange comic book: in 1976, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which... Read more »