Working as a tenant organizer in New York’s Chinatown opened Esther Wang’s eyes to the ugly—and complicated—realities of gentrification in New York City.
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‘Here’s a thing that happened once.’
I remember what I was wearing; it was a pair of cargo pants with the ankles rolled up into high waters, and an orange tank top. I remember that I really loved that tank top. I remember that I was fat, because I have literally been chubby-to-fat for my entire life. –A must-read essay by our […]
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Women Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke
And a racist joke, at that. But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.
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Women Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke
And a racist joke, at that. But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Unchain My Heart: On the Emotional Effectiveness—and Lingering Sexism—of Jewish Divorce
Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.
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Unchain My Heart: On the Emotional Effectiveness—and Lingering Sexism—of Jewish Divorce
Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.
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The Making of Janet Jackson’s ‘Control,’ 30 Years Later
The way our studio was set up back then was we had a control room where our mix board was and all that stuff, then there was a little lounge right outside with a couch. She was out there sitting and when I put it on, I could see her starting to move a little […]
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Reading Lolita in Patriarchy: Rebecca Solnit on Being Mansplained About How She Must Have Misread Nabokov
“It isn’t a fact universally acknowledged that a person who mistakes his opinions for facts may also mistake himself for God.”
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Siri Hustvedt on Knausgaard’s ‘Feminine Text’ and the Gendering of Literature
A deep examination of gender bias among readers and writers alike.
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Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be.”