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New Book "Ask A Queer Chick" Offers Honest Advice on Family, Sex, and Identity

In a readable, empathetic, and sometimes even a little bit inspiring book, Lindsay King-Miller offers advice to queer women and the people who love them.  Read more »

How Has Transgender Activism Changed in the Past Decade?

10 questions for Monica Roberts on the 10th anniversary of TransGriot's creation.   Read more »

Janese Talton-Jackson's Murder Reminds Me That Entitlement Kills

The 29-year-old mother was murdered after she rebuffed a stranger's advances in a bar. That tragic story reminds me how often people feel entitled to my body. Even friends sometimes deny my selfhood by saying they wish I wasn't a lesbian, so they could date me.  Read more »

Popaganda Episode: Writing About Race

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A New Website Helps Bystanders Support Victims of Online Harassment

One in four young women have been stalked online. Now, Hollaback is trying to make the internet safer.  Read more »

Why "Whiteness History Month" Is a Good Idea

White people need to think about and interrogate race—that's not called “reverse racism,” that's called paying attention.  Read more »

Ask Bear: Do I Have to Be Friends With People I Disagree With Politically?

Nope, says Bear. Save your energy for the people who nourish you. Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Eva Vibe

In a deliciously NSFW comic, artist Erika Moen reviews an adorable new vibrator.  Read more »

Kelly Sue DeConnick Talks "Bitch Planet" and "Pretty Deadly"

In her newest series, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has brought vital critique of incarceration and our justice system to the vibrant pop culture world of comics. She talks with us about writing imaginative, feminist comics.  Read more »

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Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens... Read more »

Saying Goodbye to Maria and the End of a Sesame Street Era

Growing up, Sesame Street's Maria was one of the best Latina role models I had. Read more »

Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »

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 »