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Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir

Grace Lavery, a brunette woman with glasses and a tattooed arm wears black and reclines horizontally on her back across the image. To the left is an image of her book, Please Miss. The book cover is white with red lips sprouting a cigarette under title.
by Daniel Lavery
February 22, 2022 at 1:59pm
“Someone I used to live with described my writing process as watching someone vomit compulsively for hours at a time,” says Grace Lavery, author of “Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.”
Author Catherine McCormack, a young blonde woman with long hair, stands in front of green foliage. Next to her is an image of her book cover for Women in the Picture.

Women in the Picture: The Art Historian Challenging the Western Gaze Through a Feminist Lens

by Nicole Diaz-Radlauer
December 2, 2021 at 12:27pm
A new book explores the power of artistic imagery from Venus to Beyoncé. Read more »
a collage of two book covers: How We Fall Apart, a photo of an Asian teenage girl with black hair split up into various pieces and A Lesson in Vengeance, a black book cover with an illustration of purple flowers and cobwebs

Academia Is Even Darker than We Thought

by Alaina Leary
August 31, 2021 at 11:24am
Katie Zhao and Victoria Lee are shaping the canon of dark academia. Read more »
Jill Biden, an aging white woman with shoulder-length blond hair, smiles while wearing a red gown at the 2009 Inaugural Ball

The Doctor Is In: Of Course White Dudes Are Losing Their Minds over Jill Biden

by Joshunda Sanders
December 17, 2020 at 8:55am
There’s something insidiously patriarchal about first ladies being subjected to not-even-clever criticisms about their education pedigree. Read more »
Jessica Marie Johnson, an Afro Latinx woman with short, curly, black and brown hair, smiles next to a tree

Beyond Deception: What It’s Really like to Be an Afro Latinx Scholar in Academia

by Evette Dionne
September 29, 2020 at 1:17pm
For true equity, it’s time to intentionally center visibly Black Latinx scholars. Read more »
Student with vines creeping near.

School Is In: Beyond the Feminist Classroom

by Trish Kahle
September 3, 2019 at 12:39pm
Feminist pedagogy alone is inadequate to the barriers facing women, people of color, and queer people in institutions of higher education. Read more »
Dear Good Men

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Dear “Good Men”

by Bitch HQ
October 15, 2018 at 3:00am
We must demand that men do more than just listen. Read more »
Donna Zuckerberg

Et Tu, Brutes: Donna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics

by Dahlia Balcazar
October 8, 2018 at 3:14pm
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read more »

Backtalk: #MeToo is Here To Stay

by Amy Lam
August 23, 2018 at 1:57pm
This week, Dahlia and Amy talk about a report that Asia Argento paid a settlement to a former castmate who accused her of sexual assault amidst questions about whether Argento’s behavior undermines the #MeToo movement. Another case has come to light about... Read more »
Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph presenting an award at the 2018 Oscars

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Big Changes Are Coming to the Oscars

by Bitch HQ
August 9, 2018 at 6:00am
A most-popular film award?!? Read more »

Douchebag Decree: USC Let A Campus Doctor Abuse Students for 30 Years

by Dahlia Balcazar
May 18, 2018 at 12:41pm
Time’s up on covering for abusive and predatory men and time’s up on those in power who let it happen year after year. Read more »

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