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Maya Cade Reframes the Legacy of Black Cinema
Rosa Cartagena interviews Maya Cade about her work on the Black Film Archive, as well as movie recommendations from the collection.
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Bloody Lies: The Never-Ending Cycle of Menstrual Mythmaking
Gabrielle Merite traces an illustrated history of stigmatizing myths about menstruation.
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Abortion Is Under Attack. These 3 Films Illustrate the Resilience of the Reproductive Rights Movement.
Film has long been used as an intellectual battle ground over the legal state of abortion. These stories from the ’60s and ’70s are alive and sadly relevant today.
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No Men Allowed: Can the Dream of a Women’s Utopia Return?
For the women joining lesbian intentional communities, autonomy could only come to fruition through the creation of a unique and separate female existence and culture.” In this, they were initially successful. However, as time passed and the feminist movement progressed, interest in separatist... Read more »
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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Juhea Kim Talks Korean History and Why Books Should Break Us Open
A new book explores the power of artistic imagery from Venus to Beyoncé.
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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”
Women’s football had to take what media coverage it could get. What it got wasn’t good.
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Tell It Like It Is: Fannie Lou Hamer Sounded the Alarm on Forced Sterilization
Hamer was the first civil rights activist during the 1960s to openly address forced sterilization.
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“This Is Not That Bad”: An Excerpt from Anita Hill's “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence”
How do three simple words—“not that bad”—become so powerful?
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Criminal Accessories: The Ruthless Style of London’s Forty Elephants Gang
The Forty Elephants remain one of the most successful and longest-lasting criminal organizations in English history.
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