Culture
Hate Cute, Fat, Black Confidence? Stay Mad.
Gabourey Sidibe won’t give entertainment media the weight-loss story they want, so some grimy, D-list websites are willing to make one up.
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Set Phasers to Inclusion: Disabled Trekkies Talk Star Trek
Star Trek is perfectly ripe for social justice and disability representation.
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Reboot and Rally: The Revolutionary Opportunities Inherent in Reupping Franchise Favorites
It’s worth considering that rebooted franchises offer the chance to make familiar and beloved stories more accessible to diverse audiences.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Dangers of Douching
A comic explains why you should just say no to douching.
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Being and Reclaiming Ourselves: A Conversation on Sexuality, Respectability, and the Pressures of Black Girlhood
Black women have to navigate sex through mainstream gender biases that say good women have to be chaste and racial biases that say Black women have this bestial sexuality.
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Cool Girls Talking: The Six Most Painful Quotes from Lena Dunham’s Amy Schumer Interview
We’ll save you a click: Not every conversation between friends needs to be published.
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A Binary is a Wonderful Thing to Break: New Study Rejects the Idea of "Male" and "Female" Brains
Despite what rom-coms tell you, an important study shows that gender is not hardwired into our brains.
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Chosen Battles: Poet Kendra DeColo on Censorship and Literary Misogyny
“I think I’m still figuring out the balance between entering hostile spaces and creating loving/nurturing communities within them.”
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Pop Life: McCarthyism, Donald Trump, and "Angels in America"
Roy Cohn was a McCarthy henchman—then he became Donald Trump’s lawyer and close friend.
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Popaganda: Body-Positive Exercise
Why does the thought of going to the gym inspire such anxiety? Because exercise—literally moving our bodies—is so wrapped up in fatphobia, ableism, sexism, and other nasty stuff. On this episode, we try to extricate exercise from all the body-shaming stuff that’s usually tied to it.... Read more »
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