Teddy Pendergrass was the R&B singer women wanted and who men wanted to be. And the one whose life-sized cardboard cutout stood in one family’s living room.
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What Gwyneth Paltrow and Great Expectations Taught Me about the Male Gaze
Sara Petersen explores the origin of her desire to perform a certain type of femininity, and how the performance ultimately led her to pursue motherhood as a path to purpose.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism
Speak Truth to Power
We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Speak Truth to Power
We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Beast for the Ages
Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
West Across the Sea
Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.
Posted inBlog Post, Reading List, Unapologetic Women
An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reading List
The New York Times came under fire for asking, “Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” A lot of outlets already knew.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story
An Inquiry Into Abuse
Allegations that Richard Nixon beat his wife, Pat Nixon, have circulated for decades without serious examination by the journalists who covered his presidency. It’s time to look more closely at what’s been hiding in plain view.
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like This and Like That and Like What?
When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.
