A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
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The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It
In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
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There Was Nothing We Could Have Done, Because We’re Racist and You’re Black
“The prevalent perception of black women as unruly bodies and incompetent caretakers overrules even the most dominant stereotype about us—namely, that we are superhuman.”
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The Silence of Women
Women who spoke too angrily or too publicly were punished in cruel and unusual ways.
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Repairman-man-man-(wo)man
Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
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The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists
Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
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A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story
Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
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A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story
Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Swipe White
Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
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Swipe White
Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.