The Heat Issue
Women in Dancehall Turn up for Pleasure Parity
Though dancehall has long been considered a platform for both men and women to unapologetically express their sexual prowess, the genre also has its limitations.
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The Lie That Feeds Our Ugly Fascination with Makeover Shows
How do you produce a show that purports to make women more beautiful—presenting them as undesirable as is—and still manage to preach self-love?
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Bound Together: One Year Later, FOSTA-SESTA Throws Sex Workers Back into the Fire
The practical impact of the law is incredibly detrimental.
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Catching Heat: Veronica Alvarez Goes to Bat for Girls in Baseball
As it now stands, once girls age out of youth baseball at 12, there’s nowhere else for them to play.
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Raising Hell: Satanic Feminism’s Eternal Legacy
Activist groups such as W.I.T.C.H. and others show how satanism can be used as a powerful unifying force for political engagement.
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A Pleasure to Burn: One Family’s Hot-Sauce Heirloom
In my family, harming yourself is unholy, unless that harm is eyes watering from tasting hot sauce.
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Twist of Faith: Q&A With “God Land” Author Lyz Lenz
“Cultural Christianity’s power as moral currency is something society still uses to define who’s good and who’s bad. For women, for people of color especially, how you look, how you dress, how you act shapes how we interpret who’s in and who’s out.”
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Cabin Fever: The New Luxury of Adult Summer Camp
Scroll through the websites of most of the adult summer camps and look at the founders, counselors, and instructors. You’ll rarely see a Black person or person of color.
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Bad Mouths: The Long History of Sanitizing Women’s Language
Many of us think of washing someone’s mouth out with soap as an outdated punishment for ill-tempered children, but for a long time it was also commonplace as a corrective for women.
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Red Handed: Kristen R. Ghodsee on Sex and Socialism
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism highlights the stories of feminists and socialists who worked to make women’s lives better under socialism, while pointing to ways we can adapt their lessons for the future.
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