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Flesh & Twine: A New Storytelling Platform Explores Gender Horror with Each Click
The horror fan in me loves to be grossed out and to squirm in my seat.
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Got the World in a Jug: The legacy of the blueswoman transcends genre
All brazen women in popular music, it could be argued, owe a debt to Bessie Smith. The no-nonsense, deep-voiced singer, nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, made more money than any other Black performer of her time, recording 160 songs between 1923 and 1931, many about sexual desire, abusive... Read more »
Food Not Lawns: California Is Thirsty for Clean, Accessible Water
California is running dry.
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Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice
Our justice movements desperately need science fiction.
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Law of the Land: An Interview with Legal Scholar and MacArthur Genius Sarah Deer
The statistics are atrocious. Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women in the United States. At least 67 percent of Native women who report sexual assault say that their assailants were non-Native men. In Canada, over 1,200 Native women have gone... Read more »
She-Hulk, Attorney at Law: She's Mean, She's Green, and She Believes in Due Process
Avenger. Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Member of the Fantastic Four. In her many superhero roles over the past 35 years, She-Hulk has proven to be one of the strongest characters in the Marvel universe. But it’s her role as an attorney that’s been truly groundbreaking for women in comics.... Read more »
Born This Way?: Why an evidence-based stance on sex and gender is good for science and for feminism
Scarcely a week goes by without a study on gender differences in the brain making headlines. “Female brains really ARE different to male minds,” reported the Mail Online on July 28, while a day later Salon framed the same research as “Women are getting smarter faster than men.... Read more »
Pretty Unnecessary: Taking beauty out of body positivity
In the early 2000s, when I was a burgeoning fashionable fat girl, I stumbled across the LiveJournal community Fatshionista. I loved seeing pictures of women my size or larger dressed in stylish, interesting, sexy clothes, embracing bright colors and form-fitting cuts, performing liberation and... Read more »
Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers
For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change.
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Let's Get Digital: The prejudices—and the potential—of gaming and erotic roleplaying
Illustrations by Amy Martin
Ask any World of Warcraft player about “Goldshire” and you’ll likely hear more than a little embarrassed giggling. The small town just outside the human capital of Stormwind is a known hotbed of ERP—shorthand for erotic roleplaying—derided... Read more »
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