Tag: sexism

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.

A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.

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.

An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.

Never underestimate the insidious, destructive power of gaslighting, especially public gaslighting.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.

Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.

Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.

Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.

Before women got the right to vote, they learned jiu-jitsu and boxing to defend themselves on the streets

Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.

TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors. 

On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.

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.

Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.