Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel speak frankly about perimenopause and menopause to destigmatize the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle.
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Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
She is the light in the darkness.
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Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
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The Relentless Relevance of ‘9 to 5’
An recent interview with Patricia Resnick, author of the screenplay for the 1980 film “9 to 5,” on how little had really changed for women by 2015.
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Mary Beard’s Voyage Into ‘Herland’
In “Women in Power” Beard uses Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Herland” to look at why powerful women don’t appear in our collective imagination.
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What Does the Women’s Strike Mean?
Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?
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The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
Ona Judge slipped out of the president’s house one night and didn’t come back. But unlike most runaway slaves, she was never caught.
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‘I Still Live in a Small Town That I Hate’: Roxane Gay’s Perspective on Her Success
This week, a number of people heard of Roxane Gay for the first time when Simon & Schuster canceled its plans to publish controversial alt-right author Milo Yiannopoulos’s book — but her success has been building for a long time.
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A Fat Body and a Fat Mind: On Taking Up Space, Unapologetically
Carmen Maria Machado’s stunning essay in Guernica on the power of women who take up space is an important read for people of any size.
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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison
INTERVIEWER You mentioned getting permission to write. Who gave it to you? MORRISON No one. What I needed permission to do was to succeed at it. I never signed a contract until the book was finished because I didn’t want it to be homework. A contract meant somebody was waiting for it, that I had […]