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Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir
“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.”
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“Jackass” Made Me the Trans Woman I Am
What Jackass has—what makes it “forever”—is genuine heart.
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The Audacity of Confidence: Is It Imposter Syndrome or Is It Patriarchy?
At least 70 percent of people are estimated to experience this profound sense of phrenic inadequacy at some point in their lives, resulting in anxiety, lack of self-confidence, depression, frustration, and more.
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Whitewashed History: The “Loud” Podcast Amplifies Reggaeton’s Overlooked Black Roots
Ivy Queen’s insightful podcast “Loud” examines reggaeton’s past, present, and future.
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Remembering bell hooks in Her Own Words
Bitch interviewed the legendary feminist scholar bell hooks in our Winter 2000 issue.
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King Isis Bends Both Gender and Genre
“Music has been there for me even when I couldn’t be there for myself,” says the singer.
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Feminist-ish: The “Little Miss Badass” Trope
The trope itself is powerful because audiences also often perceive young women as vulnerable and nonthreatening, and the reveal that a character is secretly a Little Miss Badass subverts their own expectations of the narrative.
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Essentialist Thinking: "Femlandia" Provokes, but Doesn't Push Past the Gender Binary
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch.
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A Love Scorned: What “You” Season 3 Says about Fans’ Obsession with Male Killers
Despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2.
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Female Trouble: In the Absence of Tropes, What Can a Woman Be?
We still aren’t fully comfortable with women who can’t be slotted into recognizable roles.
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