TV
Spasms of Truth: “Sex Education” Disrupts Pop Culture’s Silence around Painful Sex
Sex Education opens the door for women living with vaginismus and other conditions to have honest conversations about their symptoms.
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BitchWatch: 10 TV Shows Feminists Should Watch this Summer
While the movie industry’s health remains in question, we can thankfully take refuge in television.
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Young and Free: “The Bold Type” is the Perfect Summer Show
Each episode addresses and closes up issues in delightful and fantastical ways that keep rom-com enthusiasts tuning in each week.
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Across Time: 7 Lessons “Pose” Teaches Us about Survival
Pose exists in a New York that is long gone, but it sometimes feels like our queer and transcestors are using the show to send us messages across time.
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No Moderates in Gilead: Season 3 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is a Warning
The new season is a cautionary tale about seeking allyship with our oppressors.
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You Can Laugh If You Want To: “Veep,” “Shrill,” and TV’s Abortion Plotlines
Abortion no longer requires a Very Special Episode.
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Body Freedom: Shemekka Epps Should Get to Have It Too
She’s Gotta Have It buys into the idea that self-love and body modification can’t coexist.
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Coexisting Desires: Nola Darling Finally Gets Real with Herself in “She’s Gotta Have It”
Nola Darling understands that trauma porn is a tactic often used to beef up the work and lives of Black women for clicks and scholarships, but it is also demeaning.
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Boss Butch: “Gentleman Jack’s” Warm, Irreverent Take on 19th-Century Lesbian Desire
Gentleman Jack is unquestionably fun, but it also doesn’t set out to be an unconditional empowerment fantasy.
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Unbroken and Unbowed: Revisiting Disability Representation on “Game of Thrones”
Tyrion Lannister is a survivor in a deeply ableist family who loathes him for being a “dwarf.”
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