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Five Books About Black Women You Should Read All Year Round

Excellent books to top your to-read list. Read more »

The Brilliant Sadness of “BoJack Horseman”

The Netflix show subverts the sitcom narrative, embracing darkness and lack of resolution. The characters on Bojack Horseman evolve nicely over the show’s two seasons. They don’t become stronger or better by... Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: What Does It Mean to Be Sex Positive?

Embrace what's right for you—and be cool with other people doing what's right for them, as long as it's all consensual.  Read more »

Ask Bear: My Friends Say I Can't Take a Joke

A reader wonders if they're humorless and “too sensitive” and should try to lighten up.  Read more »

The Witchy Feminism of Modern Music Videos

Artists from Beyoncé to Grimes embrace imagery and aesthetics of witchcraft in recent videos.  Read more »

Popaganda Episode: Magic

We explore the current popularity of modern witchcraft and talk with real-life witches about how their self-made spirituality informs their identity. The resident witch columnist at Autostraddle, Mey Rude, gives us a rundown of her favorite witches in films (hint: one of them is... Read more »

Trump is Treating the Election As His Own Terrible Reality TV Show

On The Apprentice, contestants were rewarded for bad behavior and putting profit over all. Now Trump brings those shady ethics to the campaign trail.  Read more »

Long Overlooked, Revolutionary Underground Female Comix Artists Are Finally Back in Print

A new 700-page collection from Fantagraphics! Read more »

New Documentary “Equal Means Equal” Exposes Why We Need an Equal Rights Amendment

In all sorts of ways in the United States, women are still unequal.  Read more »

Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote" Is My Anti-Ageism Heroine

Twenty years after the show's final episode, it's still rare to see women like Jessica Fletcher on TV.  Read more »

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The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

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 »

It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

The marginalization of transgender women in feminism is not new, but the decades-long debate has taken on new dimension thanks to social media and the ease of finding strangers’ personal information online. Read more »

Dear Bear: My Partner Makes No Money. Is That a Problem?

Our advice columnist offers a lesson in anticapitalist self-care. Read more »