Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class By Krista Stevens Highlight “What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case By Will Hermes Feature Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reckons with Fame By Danielle Jackson Highlight In a New Yorker profile, the MacArthur ‘genius’ considers her legacy.
‘Choose Marriage or Education’ By Aaron Gilbreath Feature As a teenager, Madhur Anand’s mother takes heed of her father’s final words and becomes a teacher.
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers By Longreads Feature How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
When Will Hip-Hop Have Its #MeToo Reckoning? By Danielle Jackson Commentary It has already, time and time again.
Listening to the Words of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos After Hurricane Maria By Danielle Jackson Highlight Largely unknown, Julia de Burgos may have been Puerto Rico’s greatest poet.
Asking For It By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.
The Great Stink By Laurie Penny Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Lurve You? Or Loathe You? By Sari Botton Highlight Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
Maternity Clothes for Women Who Hate Maternity Clothes By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A close, personal look at the evolution of the maternity clothing industry.
Reclaiming Our Rage By Sari Botton Highlight Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
We’re Not Done Here By Laurie Penny Feature How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
Moira Donegan is the Anti-Katie Roiphe We Need By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Katie Roiphe’s moment is over.
You Are What You Hear By Pauline Campos Feature Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
Every Woman Her Own Bodyguard By Longreads Feature Before women got the right to vote, they learned jiu-jitsu and boxing to defend themselves on the streets
This is How a Woman is Erased From Her Job By A. N. Devers Feature After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now By Longreads Feature Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
The Consent of the (Un)governed By Laurie Penny Feature “Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism By Danielle Jackson Highlight The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Assertiveness Training By Susan Sheu Feature Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Multi-Level Marketing’s Feminine Mystique: A Reading List By Erin Blakemore Reading List The commodification of female friendship began in the suburban living room. Today, it’s booming online.
The Examination of a Playboy Bunny By Michelle Legro Commentary When Gloria Steinem applied for a job as a Bunny in 1963, she was told she first had to see a doctor.
Gloria Allred’s Personal Crusade By Sari Botton Highlight First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Literary Legend and Cat Blogger By Krista Stevens Highlight Ursula K. Le Guin may no longer publish fiction, but that hasn’t stopped her from writing.
I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny By Shannon Lell Feature After longing to be a sex-symbol as a child, Shannon Lell grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List By Erin Blakemore Commentary The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
