In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation’s first Native American governor.
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‘Women Can Be Required To Wear Something That’s Painful.’
Summer Brennan talks about femininity and suffering, beauty and biology, and the startlingly dark turn she found herself taking when writing about women and power in her new book ‘High Heel.’
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At Transformation
On the cusp of a life-changing procedure, Jane Rideau Demuth makes peace with the paths that brought her here, and the obstacles she had to wrestle with along the way.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Idaho Conservatives Are Trying to Move the American GOP Further Right
For the ultra-right wing Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, today’s GOP isn’t Republican enough.
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The Queer Generation Gap
How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.
Posted inBooks, Crime, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
Jill the Ripper
True crime’s massive gender gap (95% of murderers are male) isn’t really one that needs fixing. And yet, since the beginning, a steadfast minority of Ripperologists have argued that Jack was really Jill.
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My So-Called Media: How the Publishing Industry Sells Out Young Women
Rookie is the latest publication for young women to shut down. How do you survive a system set up for you to fail?
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Wives, Queens, and Other Comedy Heroes: A Reading List
A reading list dedicated to queer and trans comedians, and comedians of color.
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It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time
A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
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A Kendrick Lamar Syllabus
The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.
