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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Poison of Male Incivility

by benhuberman July 25, 2020October 19, 2022

On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s powerful speech on the House floor, and the entrenched narrative of the “disruptive” woman.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs

by Aaron Gilbreath September 20, 2019October 19, 2022

There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

One Man’s Poison

by Kyoko Mori September 2, 2019October 19, 2022

The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

On Beauty and Disability

by Aaron Gilbreath August 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.

Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story

The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity

by Soraya Roberts January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized

Why Do Men Fight?: An Interview with Thomas Page McBee

by Cooper Lee Bombardier August 22, 2018October 19, 2022

“When I started asking myself questions about my own notions of masculinity. I just felt so limited, so suddenly afraid of becoming the kind of man I’d grown up in fear of.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Queer Art of Failing Better

by benhuberman July 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Laurie Penny on Queer Eye: “It’s not about queerness at all. It’s actually about the disaster of heterosexuality—and what, if anything, can be salvaged from its ruins.”

Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Welcome to the Jungle

by michelleweber July 16, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story

Hemingway’s Last Girl

by Rafia Zakaria July 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A lot of women loved Hemingway. Should you?

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Cold War and its Fallout

by Vincent Czyz June 15, 2018October 19, 2022

A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.

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