Tag: feminism

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

“With a drink in my hand and earplugs responsibly in place, I’m very aware that I’ve spent more than half my life essentially standing in the same spot: off to one side of the stage (close but not too close), eyes forward, shifting weight from foot to foot.”

“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”

Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.

Carolita Johnson considers what it takes to recover from grief, build strength for the future, and become one’s own center of gravity again.

If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.

“I wasn’t unified in my being. I wasn’t able to bring my whole self to the table,” says Cameron Dezen Hammon about her life as a worship leader for an evangelical megachurch.

Margot Harris grapples with guilt following a labiaplasty procedure.

While away at summer camp, Melissa Febos discovers the power of her generation’s rage and feminism.

How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.

A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.

Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.

Maybe we can’t transcend height, but can we transcend the internalized misogyny that causes us to limit ourselves and judge other women?

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.

Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.

Or will Democrats sell out Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, too?

Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.

Notes from an awful winter.

Growing up, Niya Marie sought refuge in Whitney Houston’s ethereal notes; as an adult, Marie found recognition in her silences.

Laura Jean Baker finds that being a feminist married to a progressive man isn’t a fail-safe against sexism occasionally intruding in their marriage.

Carolita Johnson looks back on the many ways she’s tried to juggle work with her *work.*

She’s a rock star, and a mom, and a tomboy, and a wife, and a study in contradictions.

Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.

“Harmful to Minors” author Judith Levine mines her past contradictions to sketch out the challenge of a being a young woman simultaneously burgeoning into her feminist and her sexual selves.

The death of popular rapper XXXTentaction raises questions of ethical consumption.

My recommendation: a complete rebrand, where all Hooters restaurants are converted into owl sanctuaries.

Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

“What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”

A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.