These Girls Figured out a New Way to Fight Catcalling
“HEY SEXY.” The unsolicited greeting — half jeer, half mumble — cuts through the morning air and sends a rivulet of revulsion slithering down your…
Read on“HEY SEXY.” The unsolicited greeting — half jeer, half mumble — cuts through the morning air and sends a rivulet of revulsion slithering down your…
Read onIF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF “WHITE WOMAN FEMINISM,” there’s a little encounter that happened recently (which you might have heard about) that facilitates a conversation…
Read onTHIS MONTH SAW TWO BIG ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE CLINTON campaign, and two big disappointments for the Sanders campaign. Planned Parenthood is endorsing a candidate in…
Read onTHE WAR ON WOMEN IS FAR FROM OVER. Not surprisingly, 2015 was worse than 2014 for women’s rights to healthcare. That’s according to the Population…
Read onINITIALLY, this was going to be a generic (and let’s be real, maybe, slightly high-horsey) thinkpiece about the sometimes controversial and misconstrued symbolism of hijab, a veil…
Read onIF SOMEONE ASKED YOU what “the boyfriend loophole” was, would your first guess be that it had to do with gun ownership? Earlier this month,…
Read onYOU MAY HAVE HEARD of this little movie that came out earlier this year: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Ring any bells? The latest installment in…
Read onMOST PEOPLE EXPERIENCE POEMS as so puzzling and irrelevant that new books of poetry are burdened with the task of proving their right to exist.…
Read onJust Not Sorry is a new Chrome extension that highlights and removes certain “self-demeaning phrases” from your emails. Among the words to get the boot: “just,”…
Read onIN THE WORLD OF COMICS, you don’t get much more prestigious than the French lifetime achievement award known as the Angoulême Grand Prix — for…
Read onON DECEMBER 29TH, new legislation enacted in the U.K. under the Serious Crime Act established emotional and psychological abuse as criminal offenses. The law attaches…
Read onMARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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