Masculinity is fragile. While it’s only been fairly recently that this fact has been discussed in mainstream discourse, not only does it resonate with many…
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ANY FACEBOOK POST about a hijabi — whether she’s transforming herself into Disney Princesses or getting an inventive, new sports uniform — will attract a handful of…
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WHEN NEWS BREAKS OF AN INSTANCE OF FAT-SHAMING IN THE MEDIA, most would assume, if they had no details to go off of, that the…
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LAST WEEK was a devastating one for LGBTQIA individuals living in the Southeast. On Wednesday, Governor Pat McCrory signed North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ bill, House Bill 2,…
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’90S KIDS AROUND THE WORLD REJOICED WHEN NBC announced that it had ordered a new Xena: Warrior Princess pilot from Javier Grillo-Marxuach, 15 years after the…
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DYSTOPIAN FICTION: What life for women might be like if these GOP candidates won the presidency (and got their way). *Trigger Warning: mentions sexual and…
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REMEMBER that whole #likeagirl campaign from a few years ago? Where the teenage girls and boys run like buffoons when asked to run like a…
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THE COMIC BOOK WORLD has made huge strides toward better representation in the past few years. It seems, however, that one of the Big Two…
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LAST MONDAY, MARCH 7TH marked the third anniversary of the 2013 re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This landmark legislation, first passed in…
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…There is an argument for poetry being deep but I am not that argument. Eileen Myles, “A Poem,” Not Me I BECAME INTERESTED in Eileen…
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AMONG ALL OF THE DISCUSSION ABOUT #OSCARSSOWHITE, the fact that the Oscars are still, as they always have been, so very male was left out…
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MARCH IS A BIG MONTH FOR WOMEN IN THE SUPREME COURT, as the Justices hear arguments for two major cases of consequence for women’s reproductive…
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