Tag: Unapologetic Women

Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit’s famous castration story remains relevant twenty-five years after the incident, and just as painful.

Flashy hooligans like Moll Cutpurse and Long Meg sported broad-brimmed hats, wore “ruffianly short locks,” and carried swords. Other women lived quietly in secret same-sex marriages.

Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.

A group of determined adventurers spent seven days driving the desert in the first all-female road rally.

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the acclaimed new novel The Small Backs of Children, has a haunting essay up at Guernica about “Laume,” a mythological water spirit and guardian of all children that her Lithuanian grandmother introduced her to when she was young, and about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of violence and […]