economy
Messy Reality: “Maid” Puts an Unflinching Lens on Women in Poverty
A lack of support for single mothers in poverty keeps the main character trapped in a cycle.
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Bad Sport: “Squid Game” Exposes the False Rhetoric of “Choice” and “Resilience”
Resilience is admirable; challenging the system is intolerable.
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Boys and Their Toys: Privatizing Space Is the Ultimate Tech Bro Fantasy
This race takes place firmly within capitalism, as a coterie of tech billionaires flex their fantasies for starfaring civilizations.
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Backtalk: Mind the Wage Gap
This week, Dahlia and Amy talk about what real allyship can look like in Hollywood and beyond. Recently, Porter magazine hosted a roundtable with Gabrielle Union, Gina Rodriguez, Ellen Pompeo, and Emma Roberts where Pompeo called on white folks to do better and Rodriguez brought up the... Read more »
On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Congrats to Disney World Workers!
They just won a $15 minimum wage.
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart on Changing the Narrative of Poverty in Media
Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart, the brains behind the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, discuss their respective books, the importance of identifying with one another across class, and #MeToo.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Time's Up For Bill
In an interview, Clinton claimed to “like the #MeToo movement; it’s way overdue.” But when pressed on whether it had prompted him to rethink his own past behavior, he sputtered that of course he hadn’t, because he’d “felt terrible then.”
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i’m samantha irby and i’m here to take your call*: *if you promise you’ll subscribe to Bitch
if it helps, picture a bunch of celebrities pretending to talk on phones behind me as i implore you for your help.
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