Tag: sexism

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

When men devalue the labor of women like Andrea Arnold and overvalue the work of even problematic men, it’s a triple whammy that diminishes the individual woman, women in general, and the overall quality of culture.

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

The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.

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

Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.

Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.

Everyone has something to say about this mother’s body, career, and parental choices.

Rani Neutill recalls a literary workshop in which a white man critiqued her ability to write in “proper” English.

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

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

Thirst used to be desperation, now it’s aspiration. And men are finding it hard to quench.

Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.

After nearly a century of being denied the opportunity, women are riding bucking broncos in American rodeo once again, and regaining the respect they deserve.

Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020.

Your systems will not protect you.

As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.

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

Three million women tuned in last year. Here’s why.

Jenny Bhatt recalls the rites of passage that led to her shift in identity from corporate executive to woman writer of color.

Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up.

After receiving a string of menacing emails, Amy Kurzweil wonders: Can she safely extend a writer’s empathy to men who harass her on the internet?

Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.

Historically pushed toward softball, Baseball for All keeps young girls in the game.

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.*

Women trial lawyers share their experiences of destructive sexism in the courtroom.

The co-authors of ‘Country Music USA’ – a revised edition of the genre’s definitive history – talk about the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

Chelsea G. Summers considers the ways in which outwardly ‘progressive’ men like former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman use kink as a cover for abuse.

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