This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Chang, Kiera Feldman, Motoko Rich, David J. Unger, and Nicole Chung.
2018
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Current Events, Story, Unapologetic Women
Me Too, Except I Didn’t Stay Silent
In the places I’ve worked, sexual harassment was identified as something that could destroy an organization. It was a story with consequences.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women
Hollywood and ‘Disaster Feminism’
The women of Hollywood are seizing this moment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post
‘The Paper’ is the Most Essential and Overlooked Film About Journalism
No other film conveys the madness or the fun of deadline journalism.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Describing My Struggle
Six volumes later, and even fans of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle struggle to understand why his novel is so addictive. His life is so ordinary, his prose so utilitarian. Literature professor Toril Moi takes a refreshingly serious look at this international hit, and argues that My Struggle is important because it defies literary convention and critics’ […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
How I Learned to Look Believable
Possibly the most powerful piece the Times’ Style section has ever produced, this interactive story beautifully illuminates how self-consciously women must move through the world, especially after they dare to be audacious enough to speak out about their victimization.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
The world of garbage collecting in New York City is split into night and day. By day, the 7,200 workers from the city’s Department of Sanitation collect the trash from residences, following a set number of routes for a set number of hours, “with a median base pay of $69,000 plus health care, a pension, […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement
In the wake of a sexist email scandal that has led to new management of the Miss America Pageant, Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay reports on 1968 protests by radical feminists against all that the pageant stands for.
Posted inUncategorized
What to Do With a Man Who Has a Story, and a Gun
In a personal essay about the naivete of young love, Lisa Romeo recalls her first college romance, when she was willing to overlook a lot — until she wasn’t.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper
Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy.