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.
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What it Feels Like for a Girl: “Eighth Grade” Rewrites Tired Social-Media Stereotyping
The film is notable because it consciously avoids serving up a familiar media brew of technophobia and misogyny.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Facebook's Been Bragging about the Trump Campaign
SMDH.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Survivors Standing Together
They were awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage.
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Polarizing Science: How Denialism—On Both Sides of the Aisle—Puts the Work of Science In Jeopardy
The more we weaponize science for political points, the more we’ll see a rise in science denialism.
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Black Retribution in Tech: The Audacity to Imagine
“I have cultivated a special relationship with revenge—one that is built on the idea that I and other Black people deserve acknowledgment as creative individuals and equitable access to tools that can nurture our gifts.”
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The Grant Tour: Following the money in science research
Understanding where research comes from and how it’s funded is a big part of thinking critically about science.
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The Lab is Not Neutral: Why We Need Scientific Literacy
Contrary to popular belief, science isn’t performed in a vacuum.
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