Culture
BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in May
It’s difficult to focus on anything, including pop culture, given that we’re in the midst of a life-altering pandemic—and that’s perfectly okay.
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Black Barbie in Bulgari: Revisiting Hip Hop’s Ghetto Fabulous Era
Though ghetto fabulousness doesn’t quite look the same as it did in 1997, its influence lives on.
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Very Online: Twitter Has United Freelance Writers and Fair-Pay Advocates
“People are reading more content, and there are more freelancers, but there are fewer editors and staffers, and less money.”
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American Hustle: Phyllis Schlafly, “Mrs. America,” and the Selling of Antifeminism
The show reckons with the impossible bargains demanded of women on either side of the ERA.
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More Than Nostalgia: “Twilight” Lovers Are Cautiously Optimistic about “Midnight Sun”
Twilight is not a perfect series.
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Our Response to Adele’s Weight Loss Says More about Us Than Her
The body-positive movement limits its scope to individual people’s always evolving bodies rather than the systems that turn weight loss into headline-making news.
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Not Your Crisis Daddy: Is Memeing Politicians Critique—or PR?
Memes stand apart in a range of political coverage that includes everything from established news reporting to satirical forums.
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Sex Workers Are No Longer the Butt of the Joke. They’re Making Them.
Sex-worker comedians allow audiences to see erotic labor through the lens of the people who actually do it.
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“Tiger King” Is about Murder, Mayhem, and Misogyny
“Tiger King” lends a hand to Joe Exotic’s agenda to sour Caroline Baskin’s reputation and make her, in the eyes of the public, a maniacal man-killer.
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Two Funny Moms Get Real about the Goriness of Having a Baby
“There’s No Manual” informs without scaremongering and advises without judging
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