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Sady Doyle
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Serial Misogyn-Neigh: The New “BoJack” Explores How We Let Famous Men, And Horses, Off the Hook
Season five of BoJack Horseman turns a critical eye on its characters and itself. MORE
Culture · September 20, 2018
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We’re Still Locking Up the Mentally Ill
When the only prescription is jail time. MORE
Culture · June 8, 2018
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The Abyss of Motherhood
A tightrope walk without a safety net. MORE
Culture · February 13, 2018
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Alias Grace Is Even More Relevant to Trump’s America Than The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is used as a catch-all feminist allegory. But it's the specificity of Alias Grace, Netflix's latest Margaret Atwood adaptation, that makes it so pertinent. MORE
Features · November 10, 2017
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Hugh Hefner Wasn’t Just a Creep—He Was Also a Shitty Boss
To hear some tell it, Hugh Hefner changed what it meant to be a man in the 20th century. In place of God, country and family values, “Hef”—a persona... MORE
Working · September 28, 2017
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Mothers of the World, Unite!
A new Mother's Day Proclamation. MORE
Features · May 12, 2017
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Ivanka Trump’s Cosmetic Feminism Won’t Make It Easier To Raise a Kid
She puts a liberal gloss on her father’s agenda, but can’t mask his policies’ effects. MORE
Features · May 2, 2017
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To Protect Abortion Rights, Progressives Need to Think Big
The fight for reproductive justice is about to get harder, and now is no time for complacency. MORE
Views · January 6, 2017
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In “Fleabag,” TV Finally Gives Us a Female Anti-Hero to Love
The six-part British series shows us a self-destructive, bitter, angry young woman and trusts that we will care about her pain. MORE
Features · October 25, 2016
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Fox News Has a Sexual Harassment Problem and It’s Way Bigger Than Roger Ailes
The Roger Ailes harassment scandal was never just about Roger Ailes. We knew that from the beginning: Gretchen Carlson, the woman whose sexual harassment lawsuit helped topple the Fox News chief (and... MORE
Working · August 26, 2016
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Ghostbusters Is a Classic Summer Escape Film—But From Misogyny
Your ticket buys a joyful romp and a 1-hour, 45-minute break from sexism MORE
Features · July 20, 2016
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Donald Trump Has More in Common with Microsoft’s Racist Twitter-Bot ‘Tay’ Than Most Human Beings
The American people should take a note from Microsoft and shut down Donald Trump. MORE
Features · May 12, 2016
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A Progressive Case for Clinton
I am a progressive, I like Hillary Clinton and I do not feel remotely conflicted about that. MORE
Views · April 6, 2016
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Without Explosives or Lightsabers, ‘Sisters’ is a Quiet-er but No Less Feminist Film
In co-opting the party narrative for a feminist audience, Sisters does for comedies what the new Star Wars has done for action movies. MORE
Culture · January 4, 2016
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How Jessica Jones Won Over This Marvel Hater
Yes, it's feminist. Yes, it's genuinely good. Damn it. MORE
Features · December 11, 2015
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Why SXSW’s ‘Harassment Summit’ Is a Terrible Solution to Harassment
Here's what we learned from the women targeted. MORE
Features · November 9, 2015
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How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen
The psychology behind the 'Notorious RBG' phenomenon. MORE
Culture · November 4, 2015
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Why Walking Down a Dark Alley at 2 A.M. Is Not ‘Asking For It’
In a new book, Kate Harding explains why dictums to avoid rape are part of rape culture--and do more to shame us than protect us MORE
Culture · September 21, 2015
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Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.
The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim. MORE
Features · August 10, 2015
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How Amy Winehouse’s Pain Was Commodified
The new documentary AMY reveals how the media--and the men in her life--exploited Winehouse's mental illness, only to deify her after her death. MORE
Features · July 10, 2015
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Caitlyn Jenner and Miley Cyrus Shouldn’t Be Asked to Be Official LGBTQ Representatives
Jenner and Cyrus may be unlikely social justice ambassadors, but they're being the best thing they can be: themselves. MORE
Features · June 15, 2015
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The End of Mad Men and the Rise of Women
None of the women of Mad Men end up where they wanted to be. But they struggled, and they did rise. MORE
Features · May 18, 2015
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Our Anger, Ourselves
Mary Dore's documentary, 'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,' reminds us of '70s feminism's daring and creativity MORE
Culture · April 23, 2015
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I, Derivative Robot
In Chappie, Neill Blomkamp abandons his progressive instincts in favor of a trip through his DVD collection. MORE
Culture · March 10, 2015
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EMA: This is What Anti-Capitalist Virtual-Reality Art Looks Like
A performance at PS1 used the Oculus Rift VR headset to explore being a stranded human subjectivity in a commodified world. MORE
Features · February 17, 2015
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Why 2015’s Pop Music Scene Looks a Lot Like 1995’s
Sleater-Kinney, Bjork and PJ Harvey are back. And they have something to teach the new wave of 'feminist' artists. MORE
Features · January 30, 2015
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If You Tweet This, Jonathan Chait Wins
Chait styles himself as the defender of old-school liberalism, but the fact is, "Not Very P.C. Of You" is one of the most cynical, lazy pieces of #content you'll read all year. MORE
Features · January 29, 2015
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Agent Carter’s ‘Feminism’ Is More About Making Money Than Gender Equality
Feminist, sexist, conservative, liberal—Marvel will give us any kind of superhero our heart desires as long as it makes them rich. MORE
Features · January 13, 2015
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The Leelah Alcorn We Never Met
Despite her family’s best efforts, the transgender 17-year-old hasn’t been erased. But who might she have become if she had lived? MORE
Features · January 5, 2015
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Why Are We Kicking Up Such a Fuss About The Interview?
This isn't the first case of cyberterrorism this year, but it's by far the most decried. MORE
Features · December 24, 2014
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A Girlfriends’ Guide to Rage
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce has to stop trying so desperately to be a "women's show." MORE
Culture · December 16, 2014
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The Most Hated Woman on the Internet
Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking. MORE
Features · December 11, 2014
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Mockingjay’s Contradictory Revolution
The latest Hunger Games installment suggests that everything we do—even our resistance—is compromised. MORE
Features · November 24, 2014
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Interstellar Has Great Visuals and a Bad Case of Christopher Nolan Disease
A guy with a dead wife nobly pursues the blowing up of cool shit, in a universe based on iffy science. Sound familiar? MORE
Features · November 12, 2014
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The Vicious Attacks of GamerGate Are the Norm for Women on the Internet
A brief history of online violence against women. MORE
Features · October 29, 2014
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Amy Poehler’s Radical Niceness
Reading Poehler's new book Yes Please is like hanging out with a friend who believes you can do anything, and wants you to do much better. MORE
Features · October 24, 2014
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Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great
Progressives should admit it: We like abortion. MORE
Features · October 3, 2014
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Who Killed Adulthood?
Feminism stands wrongly accused. MORE
Features · September 23, 2014
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Janay Rice and the Problem with Trauma Voyeurism
Women's bodies, and the pain inflicted on them, are still regarded as public property. MORE
Features · September 12, 2014
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The Congress of Collective Hallucinations
In Ari Folman's new film, fantasy is a slippery slope. MORE
Features · September 2, 2014
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Taylor Swift Twerks While The World Burns
The singer finally meets a controversy she can't shake off. MORE
Features · August 22, 2014
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2 Finale: Vee for Vendetta
After 11 episodes of slow build, all hell finally breaks loose at Litchfield. MORE
Features · August 15, 2014
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Orange Is the New Black: Season 2, Episodes 10 & 11: Our Most Cherished Larry Fantasy Comes True
Daya is, yep, still pregnant, Vee spins love into evil, and someone finally socks Larry. MORE
Features · August 8, 2014
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Lessons From a ‘Bad Feminist’
In Roxane Gay's new essay collection, Gay treats her subjects with remarkable patience, subtlety, and most importantly, humanity. MORE
Features · August 4, 2014
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2, Episodes 8 and 9: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
As Piper's personal life deteriorates, the conflict simmering at Litchfield starts to heat up. MORE
Features · July 25, 2014
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In ‘Snowpiercer,’ Revolution is Brutal—And Necessary
The sci-fi flick doesn't fall into the trap of romanticizing the struggle. MORE
Culture · July 22, 2014
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Orange is the New Black, Season 2, Episodes 6 and 7: A Prison Underground in Crisis
Is Litchfield's infrastructural decline a metaphor for what's to come? MORE
Features · July 18, 2014
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The Nanny University
Is the academy trigger-warning happy? MORE
Act Locally · July 14, 2014
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 5: A Song of Vice and Ire
The relationships among races on OITNB are as complex as the politics on Game of Thrones. MORE
Features · July 11, 2014
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Orange is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 4: Everyone’s Acting Like a Predator
Should we still empathize with the characters of OITNB after this week's disturbing revelations? MORE
Features · July 2, 2014
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