Tag: #MeToo

The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.

Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.

How can we combat sexism in publishing if we’re so worried about damaging the reputations of offending men?

Ten years after calling Letterman out for creating a hostile work environment for women, Nell Scovell gets to talk with him about it.

Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.

Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.

When a student in her writing workshop submits a piece suggesting his character could ‘take’ a teacher just like her ‘atop her desk,’ Courtney Zoffness is flooded with memories of men touching her against her will.

Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.

Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future” is a fitting book for the #MeToo moment, which is as much about justice and reparations as it is about understanding the logic of memory.

A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’

The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.

Reema Zaman on deciding she would no longer live to please men, and how women’s self-esteem and self-love is a revolutionary act of dissent.

#MeToo isn’t just a moment, it’s a movement. And there’s a lot of work yet to do.

Howard Hughes used gossip, spies and money to control Hollywood’s women for nearly 60 years. Karina Longworth critically examines the Golden Age’s gossip to stop his false narratives from becoming our history.

Eight pieces about women fighting to be seen and heard.

In a good story, a character suffers, changes, and grows. In real life, women suffer while men double down on their delusions of virtue.

Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?

Memoirist Tanya Marquardt talks about consent, trauma, and investigating our memories in the age of #MeToo.

Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.

In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.

As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.

A lot of women loved Hemingway. Should you?

The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.

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

Carmen Maria Machado discusses the nuances of “benevolent sexism,” who gets to define the #MeToo movement, and how it should progress.

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

Tricia Romano considers what speaking out about abuse at the hands of Eric Schneiderman has cost a close friend.

It has already, time and time again.