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Eating the Poison: “Sin Eater” Turns Shame into a Superpower
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.
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats.
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Lip Service: Lucy Parsons’s Revolution Was Beautified
Desirability politics, social capital, and lookism remain present in even the most conscious radical spaces.
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Corseted Up: Victorian Ideals Are Still Binding up Women
A woman who meets the world with intensity is a woman who endures lashes of shame and disapproval.
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Siren Songs: Nina MacLaughlin on Revisiting the Women of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”
In Wake, Siren, Ovid’s women emerge as unique individuals, fully formed and very often full of anger.
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Binding Harm: Generations of Witches Intertwine Rituals and Activism
To be a witch is to have and to exercise agency on behalf of all.
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Dicks in a Box: The Enduring Fear of Penis-Snatching Witches
Castration anxiety is the unidentified main character in fantastical stories about penis-stealing witches.
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Finite Love: What Lesbian Period Dramas Lose When We Project Our Fears on Them
Films and television series featuring queer characters are still relatively scarce.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction: The Bikini Turned Sexuality into a Threat
From the moment it debuted, the bikini was a scandal.
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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Many of us think of washing someone’s mouth out with soap as an outdated punishment for ill-tempered children, but for a long time it was also commonplace as a corrective for women.
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