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Whitewashed History: The “Loud” Podcast Amplifies Reggaeton’s Overlooked Black Roots

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by Jasely Molina
January 11, 2022 at 2:30pm
Ivy Queen’s insightful podcast “Loud” examines reggaeton’s past, present, and future.
Author Juhea Kim in a bright red shirt in front of an orange background. To her right is a picture of the cover for Beasts of a Little Land

Juhea Kim Talks Korean History and Why Books Should Break Us Open

by Edi Kim
December 13, 2021 at 2:34pm
A new book explores the power of artistic imagery from Venus to Beyoncé. Read more »
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How Media Moved the Goalposts on Women's Football: An Excerpt from “Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League”

by Bitch HQ
November 3, 2021 at 2:30pm
Women’s football had to take what media coverage it could get. What it got wasn’t good. Read more »
Author Keisha N. Blain is pictured, she is a Black woman with braids wearing black-rimmed glasses. Next to her headshot are three other images, two that picture activist Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black woman, speaking. The final image is of Blain's book cover.

Tell It Like It Is: Fannie Lou Hamer Sounded the Alarm on Forced Sterilization

by Bitch HQ
October 5, 2021 at 11:34am
Hamer was the first civil rights activist during the 1960s to openly address forced sterilization. Read more »
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“This Is Not That Bad”: An Excerpt from Anita Hill's “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence”

by Bitch HQ
September 28, 2021 at 12:08pm
How do three simple words—“not that bad”—become so powerful? Read more »
Alice Diamond, Lillian Rose Kendall, and Florrie Holmes, three white women wearing fur hats and pin curls, were members of the Forty Elephants Gang in 1916

Criminal Accessories: The Ruthless Style of London’s Forty Elephants Gang

by Ann Foster
April 22, 2021 at 9:00am
The Forty Elephants remain one of the most successful and longest-lasting criminal organizations in English history. Read more »
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Avenging Eve: The Death of Eden and the Birth of Patriarchy

by McKenzie Schwark
March 2, 2021 at 10:15am
The biblical origin story teaches us that the woman who dares disobey God is the monster. Read more »
Luciano Garbati’s Medusa With The Head of Perseus is a naked gold statue with long snake-like hair holding a gold man's head

Monstrous Men: The Medusa #MeToo Monument Has an Oedipal Complex

by Erin Thompson
October 30, 2020 at 11:28am
The statue embodies is the long historical pattern in which male competition plays out in the exploitation of female suffering. Read more »
Megan Campisi, a white author with long, gray hair, smiles for the camera

Eating the Poison: “Sin Eater” Turns Shame into a Superpower

by Evette Dionne
May 27, 2020 at 10:38am
The most important thing is what you think of yourself, even if you’re in a terrible situation; that kind of self-worth is where everything else begins. Read more »
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory

by Kim-Anh Schreiber
April 20, 2020 at 9:55am
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats. Read more »
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Lip Service: Lucy Parsons’s Revolution Was Beautified

by Kim Kelly
March 6, 2020 at 9:00am
Desirability politics, social capital, and lookism remain present in even the most conscious radical spaces. Read more »

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