internets
The Weird and Wild World of Reddit Relationships
It’s not surprising that people turn to the internet for relationship advice.
Read more »
Inside Job: Can We Achieve Social Justice on a Platform Built to Exploit?
The business models that have made Facebook such an effective community-building tool are fundamentally at odds with the ethics of many of the communities it helps build.
Read more »
Online Challenges Hit a Sour Note for Queer and Trans Communities
I was overwhelmed with the memory of my old image.
Read more »
Reclaiming Hysteria: Disability Advocates Have Embraced YouTube—But the Feeling Isn’t Mutual
Demonetization and algorithm bias can dramatically affect the income that disabled creators stand to make.
Read more »
Word Travels: The Social Network Sex Workers Built
Many “respectable” women are discovering the strategies that sex workers use—which are actually the same ones used by all women outside the charmed circle of privilege.
Read more »
Digital Crackdowns on the Sex Trade Can Put Sex Workers at Risk
Raiding sex worker websites may look good for law enforcement—but it can push sex workers further underground.
Read more »
The Last Big Lean In: Corporate-Feminist Self-Help Was Always a Scam
They sold advice to the same ambitious women they were later willing to sacrifice.
Read more »
The Real Truth About YouTube’s Obsessive Purity Subculture
There’s something sickly comforting about believing that staying pure will give you power, about the idea that everything will be okay if you follow the rules.
Read more »
On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: #MeToo Founder’s Letter to Dr. Ford
“We witnessed you show up for duty not as a superhero, but as a fully human woman.”
Read more »
Et Tu, Brutes: Donna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics.
Read more »
Pages
