Culture
The Worst 100 Days: Make “Alternative Facts” Lies Again
In a postfactual world, the question of how to report, broadcast, and process news is more pressing than ever.
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Pressure Makes Perfect: Donna Freitas Examines the Friction Between Public Identity and Personal Authenticity with Mixed Results
Frietas hits all the hot topics of the day—selfies, sexting, bullying, love-hate relationships with smartphones—but seems to be writing for an audience of technology estranged adults.
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Intergenerational Resistance: "This isn't any worse, it's just your turn."
“I’m 75,” my grandmother shrugged, calm and utterly unfazed. “I’ve seen worse. The thing to remember is this: if you believe in what you have to say, then you must find a way to say it. This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.”
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Body Politic: Marginalization at the Women's March and Beyond
Here’s the thing about unity, though: it cannot be demanded. It must be constructed with care.
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Going Green: Writer Mariko Tamaki Takes the Hulk Franchise into Uncharted Territory
Not only is a woman now taking center stage as Hulk, stepping into a role that has always been a symbol of superheroic masculinity, her trauma and internalized anger is at the heart of the story.
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys : Sonya Huber's New Essay Collection is a Multifaceted Look at Life with Chronic Pain
Huber uses pain as a lens through which she examines disability, gender bias, motherhood, and the very basic condition of living in a body.
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Follow Women of Color: Lessons from the Women's March on Washington
The rally before the march was packed with incredible speakers—Cecile Richards, Michael Moore, Van Jones, Gloria Steinem—but it was women of color, again and again, who brought the house down with their music and songs, with their words, and with their hearts.
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Dispatches from Outside the Women's March
The Women’s March is not only a bold chapter in the continuing narrative of U.S. feminisms, it also accurately documented the problems still unresolved in feminist movements; namely white supremacy, bio essentialism, and ableism.
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Future Imperfect: Madame Clairevoyant on Astrology in the Age of Trump
“We can imagine bigger and better things for our world, and I want us not to lose sight of that as things get sadder and stranger.”
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Popaganda: Laughing at Tyrants
Donald Trump hates it when you laugh at him. This episode features two conversations about using humor to share ideas and feelings with hostile people. First, we hear from Jex Blackmore of Detroit’s Satanic Temple, which hosts spectacular protests rooted to point out the hypocrisy of... Read more »
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