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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Strike
McDonald’s workers are going on strike over sexual harassment.
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Sentimental Miseducation: Alice Bolin Deconstructs the Dead Girl Narrative
From Nicole Brown Simpson to JonBenét Ramsey, Twin Peaks to Pretty Little Liars, the Dead Girl trope has haunted American media and pop culture decade after decade.
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Of Mice and Men: When Research Excludes Female Rodents, Human Women Lose
The scientific implications of excluding female animals from scientific and biomedical research are astounding.
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White Whine: The Past that Incels Long For Never Existed
The men who romanticize a period of time in which women and people of color were kept “in their place” have been raised by those who enjoyed the privileges of whiteness.
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Radical Bodies: “Dietland” Author Sarai Walker On Her Taboo-Busting Book’s Journey To TV
Dietland’s willingness to engage with difficult, complex subjects—not least of which is women’s anger—feels deeply resonant right now.
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Sick Women: How Women Took Control of Chronic Illness Narratives
After decades of erasure, the tide is turning.
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“The Misandrists” Offers a Muddled Critique of Radical Feminism
Is it possible to lampoon radical feminism and celebrate it at the same time?
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Popaganda: What Does Gender Sound Like?
Music interacts with gender in surprising and strange ways: sometimes upholding the binary, sometimes undermining it. In this episode, we’ll talk to three people who’ve thought deeply about that dynamic and come up with their own interpretations of what it all means.
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Joy-Ann Reid and the Case for Redemption
MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid has made mistakes. What now?
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Douchebag Decree: Ross Douthat Thinks Violent Incel Ideology Makes Sense
Of course this week’s Douchebag Decree is going to Ross Douthat.
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