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Don't Be the Lone Shark: Surviving as a Feminist Parent

Just as there isn’t only one way to be a feminist, there isn’t just one way to be a feminist parent. Read more »

Not Your Belly, Not Your Business: On Serena Williams, Reproduction, and Athleticism

Invasions of Black women’s privacy are often supported by societal notions of Black women’s inability to feel pain in the same ways non-Black people do. Read more »

You’re Not the Girlboss of Me: Conflating Capitalism with Feminism in Netflix’s New Series

The expanding landscape of television means that unlikable characters can no longer just be jerks for jerks’ sake. Read more »

Five Instagram Accounts to Follow on Lesbian Visibility Day

As lesbian bars are closing across the country and the number of articles on the slow decline of those identifying as lesbians increases, today we honor and uplift lesbian voices, culture, and history. Read more »

The Sugar of Black Cool: Pepsi’s Botched Commercial Is Just One Problem in the Web of Food Justice

If the primary response to the Pepsi commercial doesn’t center on youth of color, we’re all missing the point. Read more »

Sages, Villains, and Seers: Mapping Disability in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bodies and minds will always be rooted in a sociopolitical context, and it is that context that privileges one type of body and one type of mind over all others. Read more »

Meet the Martians: Five women from the Mars One space program share their thoughts on leaving earth forever

When we look beyond space tourism to a permanent settlement on another planet, who do we see there? Read more »

Get Out of Gilead: Anti-Blackness in “The Handmaid’s Tale”

The Handmaid’s Tale remains silent on the central feature of American history, anti-blackness, while it takes from the oppression of Black women and applies it indiscriminately to white women. Read more »

Fast Feminism, Cheap Talk: Marketplace Feminism’s Fragile Bargains

In 2017, marketplace feminism’s high-gloss façade is cracking open to reveal the gears of status-quo capitalism grinding away just behind. Read more »

Popaganda: Journalism in a "Post Truth" World

Media is the way we come to understand the world and what happens in it and what we as regular people can do to shape our societies. And this role, this reality, has been altered, in some pretty big and disturbing ways thanks to Trump. To help make sense of this new dystopian media landscape,... Read more »

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

To imply that trans women pose a threat to cisgender women in restrooms is misinformation that preys on unfounded fears. 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 »

Where My Girls At: Meet Two of Ferguson's Black Queer Activists

Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change. Read more »

A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

Nearly every Saturday morning, feminists of color hold Twitter discussions taking a deeper look at issues, such as gender violence. It’s the... Read more »