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Posted inMedia, Reading List, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing

Celebrating Bitch Magazine: A Reading List

by A.H. Reaume May 12, 2022October 19, 2022

A writer traces her own feminist journey as she reflects on the forthcoming shutdown of Bitch Media.

Posted inNonfiction

Binders Full of Men

by Jennifer Berney February 9, 2021October 18, 2022

In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Wonder Women

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.”

Posted inStory

Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent

by Jeanna Kadlec October 7, 2020October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inNonfiction

On Watching Boys Play Music

by Eryn Loeb April 7, 2020December 9, 2022

“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.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

Vivian Gornick on ‘Political Activism as a Path Toward a Coherent Self’

by Krista Stevens January 31, 2020October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

Elizabeth Wurtzel Made it Okay to Write ‘Ouch’

by Sari Botton January 9, 2020October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Woman’s Work: Becoming a Home of One’s Own

by Carolita Johnson December 18, 2019December 30, 2022

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

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

Checking in on the Masculinity Crisis

by Kelli María Korducki December 3, 2019December 30, 2022

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.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Was Being Used in Slivers and Slices’: On Feminism at Odds With Evangelical Faith

by Jane Ratcliffe October 23, 2019January 20, 2023

“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.

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