Culture
“Legend of Korra” Shows How to Navigate PTSD While Fighting Injustice
Legend of Korra shows TV viewers that it’s possible to manage trauma—even while continuing the fight for justice.
Read more »
Trauma Fishbowl: Reality TV Is Costing Survivors More Than Privacy
These events are a stark reminder of the price of fame.
Read more »
Verbalizing the Self: Why Bisexuals Are Fighting to Update the Definition of Bisexuality
Merriam-Webster finally changed their definition of bisexuality. Is it a win for bisexuals, or more of the same?
Read more »
Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery
If these cinematic perceptions of slavery are committed to memory, then we might accept the plantation as a mere backdrop to terror rather than the very site of it.
Read more »
How a $490 Strawberry Dress Became Queer Culture
“Be my girlfriend: You buy the pink strawberry dress and I’ll buy the black,” could almost be a 2020 pickup line.
Read more »
Dethroning Romance: Angela Chen Archives the Evolution of Asexuality
“I write about how asexuality has become a sexual identity, but it can also be thought of as just a way of living that doesn’t center sex.”
Read more »
Hustle & Glow: “P-Valley” Puts Black Southern Strippers in the Spotlight
The show is an expansive portrait of poverty, racism, misogyny and the Black Southern pride that pushes back against oppression.
Read more »
BitchReads: 13 YA Books Feminists Should Read in September
Welcome to our inaugural YA monthly BitchReads list!
Read more »
All Together Now: Novels Fight the Myth of the Mean Girl
These new YA protagonists aren’t afraid of their power or the power that their confidence might instill in readers.
Read more »
Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Mutual dislike and violence are not an unfortunate bug in the heteropatriarchal system; they’re fundamental to it.
Read more »
Pages
