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Women Prophets: Exalting Religion's Most Controversial Feminists

And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy sees women’s lives as theologies. Read more »

You Oughta Know: Bitch’s Weekly Pop Culture Obsessions

Aaliyah’s coming to MAC—and we’re obsessed already. Read more »

Comedic Gold: Kulap Vilaysack Will Take Over TV

The industry needs her. Read more »

Let’s Not Eat Cake: Tina Fey’s Sugar Crash

Tina Fey is representative of scores of women—many of whom are white—who deem themselves “woke,” but don’t have a grasp on oppressions as systems. Read more »

The Powers That Be: Bold Sexuality Takes Center Stage In “Good Booty”

Ann Powers wants us to think more deeply about race, sex, and music. Read more »

Badass Moon Rising: Your Guide to the most feminist eclipse ever

As we’ve all seen over the past few years, it’s incredibly easy to make things that have literally nothing to do with feminism into media-friendly feminist statements if you try hard enough and use enough Millennial Pink as an accent color. Read more »

#SayHerName Lives: Andrea J. Ritchie On Being “Invisible No More”

Police violence has largely been framed as a Black man’s issue. Read more »

You Oughta Know: Bitch’s Weekly Pop Culture Obsessions

We’re still not over “The Bachelorette.” Read more »

The Harmful History of “Gypsy”

The Romani people are an oppressed ethnic minority currently in the midst of a centuries-long human rights crisis—one that is, in part, perpetuated by the stereotypes of the Gypsy. Read more »

Backtalk: Google Manifesto & Transphobia Is Not a Joke

This week, exemplifies the question that Frank Ocean’s t-shirt asked: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” Dahlia and Amy talk about the terribly misguided memo from a Google employee and the deplorable transphobia on the Breakfast Club. Recently,... Read more »

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

Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change. Read more »

Why You Should Pay for Porn

If you’re a progressive middle-class individual, chances are you think about where your food comes from. Maybe you try to buy shoes that are... 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 »

It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

The marginalization of transgender women in feminism is not new, but the decades-long debate has taken on new dimension thanks to social media and the ease of finding strangers’ personal information online. Read more »