Culture

The Pleasure Dome: Breastfeeding for Nurturing...and Pleasure

Breastfeeding changes the relationship people have to their nipples. Read more »

Long Interviews with Hideous Men: Stop Telling Us to “Understand” Bigotry

Do we really need to know the history of and justifications for someone’s beliefs or actions to understand that those beliefs and actions are objectively bad? Read more »

Our Apocalypse, Ourselves: How Fictional Apocalypses Reveal and Soothe Our Greatest Fears

In a way, dystopian tales act as bedtime stories and cautionary tales for adults. Read more »

White Women Need to Do Better: The Death of “My Favorite Murder”

It’s so important that we not only make sure to represent victims of color well, but also cease to promote or accept tone policing, respectability politics, and straight, white people serving up opinions that go unchecked. Read more »

The Girl in the Green Catsuit: Ayana Evans on Using Her Body as Performance Art

We spoke about the obstacles Black women artists face. Read more »

Built By and For Queer Gamers: “Ladykiller In a Bind” Is What We’ve Been Waiting For

It’s a shining example of what draws players to Christine Love’s work. Read more »

What’s Better than “Wonder Woman” is Warrior Women

The failure to portray warrior women in superhero movies stems from the same failure to portray women authentically in war. Read more »

Welcome To Tingletown: ASMR Is YouTube’s Most Controversial Secret Community

YouTube comments and Reddit threads about ASMRtists reveals an assortment of harassment, body snark, and slut shaming. Read more »

Pay Me What You Owe Me: “Insecure’s” Yvonne Orji Talks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

Molly’s fight for equal pay mirrors a real life issue. Read more »

You Oughta Know: Bitch’s Weekly Pop Culture Obsessions

This week, we’re loving “The Bachelorette,” a forthcoming book about race, and Lana Del Ray’s incredible new album. Read more »

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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 »

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 »

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

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