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Not Accepting Romance Submissions: Bringing Asexual Characters to YA

An asexual author got tired of not seeing asexual characters in YA books. So she decided to write her own series. Read more »

Popaganda: Money

Money. You hate it. You need it. On this episode, we embark on an anti-capitalist exploration of cold hard cash, highlighting work from the Money issue of Bitch magazine. Featuring: Financial advice for your twenties from Ester Bloom of The Billfold, a conversation about the racial politics of... Read more »

What Would Have Made "X-Men: Apocalypse" Better? More Screen Time for Female Characters

Storm, Mystique, and Psylocke get the short shrift in the new film. What a waste!  Read more »

An Interview with Alice Bag: Chicana Punk Maverick

Alice Bag just 19 when she became the frontperson for one of Los Angeles's most riotous punk acts. In this interview, she talks about L.A. punk, Latina feminism, and why she finally decided to release her very first solo album in 2016. Read more »

MariNaomi Looks In Between Cultures in Illustrated Memoir "Turning Japanese"

“It was definitely pretty naive to think that I would find some kind of belonging in a foreign country.” Read more »

“Steven Universe’s” Quiet Gender Revolutions

The first-ever Cartoon Network show to be created by a woman challenges TV’s gender norms is all sorts of brilliant ways.  Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Period Sex

Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly NSFW comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week: The ins and outs of sex on your period!  Read more »

It's 2016 and People Are Still Worried About Teens Taking Birth Control

A school board in Oregon voted down a plan to have school-based health clinics distribute birth control. Who will think of the children?! Read more »

In Defense of Unlikable Women

We forgive our male heroes even when they’re flawed, aimless brutes. But if they’re female? Forget it.  Read more »

Backtalk: Game of Thrones & xoJane

This week, we talk about burning down the patriarchy in Game of Thrones and how the show’s female characters have evolved this season. Then, we discuss the desctructive clickbait culture seen in many online outlets—most specifically, xoJane, which published an... Read more »

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The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

In 1948, in a seventh grade classroom in Eugene, Oregon, a teacher dimmed the lights and flipped on 16mm projector. A film called Human... Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

Saying Goodbye to Maria and the End of a Sesame Street Era

Growing up, Sesame Street's Maria was one of the best Latina role models I had. 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 »