Culture
Backtalk: Milo's Demise & Vogue's Yellowface
Dahlia and Amy take small pleasures wherever they can get them, such as celebrating the public downfall of famed conservative troll, Milo Yiannopoulos. Writer Roxane Gay, who pulled her book from publishing with Simon & Schuster after they announced a book deal with Yiannopoulus, warns... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: A Day in the Life
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly NSFW comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week: Erika Moen gets personal with her entry for Hourly Comics Day.
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Viola Davis and the Afro as Resistance
This is why we applaud Viola, because she publicly oscillates between afro and wig, which invalidates the idea that only a certain “type” of woman wears weave and that only a woman who burns incense wears an afro.
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NBC and the Manufacturing of Donald Trump
The Apprentice groomed millions of future voters to believe that women and people of color are less competent than white men, who are natural leaders; business ethics are a joke; gratuitous offensiveness is admirable honesty; and Trump’s judgment matters more than anyone else’s.
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Morgan Parker’s New Collection Is a Complex Tribute to Black Women
Morgan Parker’s book is an exciting contribution to the rich legacy of Black feminist art, literature, poetry, and music.
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If the Resistance Fits: On Marketplace Feminsim, Representation, and NYFW
Resistance is au courant, and don’t think designers haven’t noticed.
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Reverberations: History and Legacies of Resistance in Black Women’s Music
These acts of transfer, of protesting social conditions and the status quo through music, continue to remain integral to Black women’s survival and protest.
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Popaganda: Who Writes Our History?
History isn’t static—it’s the stories we tell ourselves about the past. And that story changes depending on who’s doing the telling.
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Are You Buying For-Profit Feminism?: We Bet You Are And You Probably Don’t Even Know It
We’re here to work against the clean, mainstream, for-profit media narrative of calling ourselves feminists and then calling it a day.
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Hostile Gifts: Valentine’s Day Special Edition!
2017 is a very unique year for hostility, so we decided there was no need to wait for the winter holidays to brainstorm ideas for hostile gifts!
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