Relationships
Golden Girls: Galentine’s Day, from Lady Friends to Shine Theory
Galentine’s Day reflects a long-standing desire to express love in new ways, no matter how much of a premium society puts on the old forms.
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Touch Too Much: Let’s Talk about Consent beyond Sex
Even within social-justice circles where we regularly espouse the necessity of consent and the importance of teaching it, we rarely talk about touch separate from its relationship to sex.
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Lane Moore On Surviving Lifelong Loneliness
I wanted to write a book for people like myself because no one writes for us.
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Platonic Ideal: In “My Brilliant Friend,” Companionship and Survival are Forever Linked
Safety in any manifestation is a luxury for Elena and Lila, as is liberty.
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No Foes, Real Friends: “Insecure” Has a Love-Hate Relationship with the Classic Marriage Plot
In a time when there are more single adults in America than ever before, it’s depressing to see Insecure suggest that Issa requires this much contrived romantic failure to justify her realization that a man won’t “fix” her life.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Queer Love on “The Bachelor”
Finally, the queer love story we all deserve.
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The Parent Trap: Birth-Control Sabotage Is an Insidious Kind of Abuse
The high-profile nature of Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson’s relationship exposes young people to this horrific form of abuse through a joke that downplays its actual harm.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: The Retroactive Representation of Fantastic Beasts
Who knew that Nagini was actually a Korean woman this whole time?
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Popaganda: Queering Virginity
On her Netflix one-woman show, Nanette, Hannah Gadsby opines, “There’s only ever been two options for a little girl to grow up into: virgin or whore…. And I don’t fit neatly into either of those categories. Virgin or whore? I mean, on a technicality, I’d get virgin.” Virginity is a weird, nebulous... Read more »
Naming Fears: Vivek Shraya on Vulnerability as a Tool for Transformation
What if saying “I’m afraid” was just as much of a statement of resilience as “I’m not afraid?”
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