Culture
Don't Be the Lone Shark: Surviving as a Feminist Parent
Just as there isn’t only one way to be a feminist, there isn’t just one way to be a feminist parent.
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Not Your Belly, Not Your Business: On Serena Williams, Reproduction, and Athleticism
Invasions of Black women’s privacy are often supported by societal notions of Black women’s inability to feel pain in the same ways non-Black people do.
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You’re Not the Girlboss of Me: Conflating Capitalism with Feminism in Netflix’s New Series
The expanding landscape of television means that unlikable characters can no longer just be jerks for jerks’ sake.
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Five Instagram Accounts to Follow on Lesbian Visibility Day
As lesbian bars are closing across the country and the number of articles on the slow decline of those identifying as lesbians increases, today we honor and uplift lesbian voices, culture, and history.
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The Sugar of Black Cool: Pepsi’s Botched Commercial Is Just One Problem in the Web of Food Justice
If the primary response to the Pepsi commercial doesn’t center on youth of color, we’re all missing the point.
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Sages, Villains, and Seers: Mapping Disability in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Bodies and minds will always be rooted in a sociopolitical context, and it is that context that privileges one type of body and one type of mind over all others.
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Meet the Martians: Five women from the Mars One space program share their thoughts on leaving earth forever
When we look beyond space tourism to a permanent settlement on another planet, who do we see there?
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Get Out of Gilead: Anti-Blackness in “The Handmaid’s Tale”
The Handmaid’s Tale remains silent on the central feature of American history, anti-blackness, while it takes from the oppression of Black women and applies it indiscriminately to white women.
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Fast Feminism, Cheap Talk: Marketplace Feminism’s Fragile Bargains
In 2017, marketplace feminism’s high-gloss façade is cracking open to reveal the gears of status-quo capitalism grinding away just behind.
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Popaganda: Journalism in a "Post Truth" World
Media is the way we come to understand the world and what happens in it and what we as regular people can do to shape our societies. And this role, this reality, has been altered, in some pretty big and disturbing ways thanks to Trump. To help make sense of this new dystopian media landscape,... Read more »
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