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“The Half of It” Isn’t Joking When It Says It Isn’t a Love Story

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
May 1, 2020 at 12:39pm
“The Half of It” seems to be more about the halfway happiness Ellie’s given. Read more »
Amy Roost, a white woman with short, curly hair, poses in a white shirt

Incinerating Injustice: Women Are Rightfully Furious Under Trump

by Evette Dionne
April 30, 2020 at 10:42am
All roads lead back to empathy. Read more »
Maia, a singer songwriter, wears a flowing white dress and gold eyeshadow with her light brown hair parted in the middle. She looks into the camera, which appears artfully smudged.

Channeling Confidence: mxmtoon Sings for Queer Teens—and for Herself

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
April 29, 2020 at 2:21pm
“I have this platform where I can see my own audience reacting to who I am and feeling safe to express who they are as well.” Read more »
Author George M. Johnson wears a gray sweatshirt and offers a small smile to the camera.

“All Boys Aren’t Blue” Offers Hope and Trust to Young Queer Black Readers

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
April 28, 2020 at 11:19am
George M. Johnson has crafted an intimate community of Black queer readers. Read more »
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Intimate Access: Danez Smith on Poetry as Purpose, Thriving with HIV, and Blackness as Home

by George M. Johnson
April 28, 2020 at 9:00am
Blackness is everything to me. Read more »
two books: Layoverland, a blue cover that features an illustration of a hotel in the sky, and How to Survive Death and Other inconveniences, a red book cover that features a Barbie buried in sand, are overlayed

(No) Escape Zone: Two Authors Bring Us to Terms with Our Mortality

by Evette Dionne
April 27, 2020 at 10:32am
The more we’re encouraged to talk to one another about death, the less scary and anxiety-inducing it is. Read more »
a white couple sits beside each other on a bed in the new film Shirley

Ms. Jackson If You’re Scary: “Shirley” Is a Biopic in the Form of a Domestic Ghost Story

by Jourdain Searles
April 24, 2020 at 12:49pm
The film explores what happens when Shirley Jackson meets a younger reflection of herself. Read more »
two young thin women are climbing trees above a lake

Lose Yourself: The Complex, Comforting Allure of Not Being Seen

by Vanessa Taylor
April 23, 2020 at 12:38pm
What does it mean to be able to reject the gaze before it even happens? Read more »
Kerry Washington as Mia Warren doing the hair of Lexi Underwood as Pearl Warren in Little Fires Everywhere

“Little Fires Everywhere" Illuminates Racial Tension in Female Friendships

by Rebecca Long
April 22, 2020 at 2:13pm
The series attempts to illuminate often unseen societal inequities. Read more »
Sarah Kendzior, a white woman with shoulder-length blond hair, smiles at the camera

Power Lies: Sarah Kendzior on the America That Made Donald Trump Possible

by Andi Zeisler
April 22, 2020 at 11:00am
“Anyone could have found the things I found, and could have put them together.” Read more »

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Elizabeth Gilbert, a white woman wearing a navy blue jumpsuit, leans forward and holds hand with and Oprah Winfrey, a Black woman wearing a gray cardigan and jeans
by Joshunda Sanders
Summer 2010 • Action
Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »

Ms. Opinionated: I'm a Man. How Can I Help the Feminist Movement?

by Andi Zeisler
February 19, 2014 at 2:29pm
Welcome to Ms. Opinionated, our weekly advice column dealing with questions of life, love, feminism, and pop culture. This week, a reader... Read more »

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

by Erica Cardwell
April 27, 2015 at 3:26pm
Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change. Read more »

Dear Bear: My Partner Makes No Money. Is That a Problem?

by S. Bear Bergman
February 2, 2016 at 4:47pm
Our advice columnist offers a lesson in anticapitalist self-care. Read more »