Megan Mayhew Bergman explores how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
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Am I in an Abusive Relationship? ‘I knew if I had to ask I already knew the answer.’
Katherine Laidlaw recalls an abusive relationship in which her boyfriend threatened her with a boxcutter.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Truth Is Out There (About Menopause)
In this conversation, Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel reflect on the maddening and sometimes little-known symptoms of perimenopause and menopause to get more women talking about the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle and how it affects them, their work, their partners, and their families.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
What Does the Women’s Strike Mean?
Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Let Them Buy Louboutins’: Ivanka Trump and Working Women
In a piece in The Nation, Amy Wilentz methodically eviscerates and examines the guts of Ivanka Trump’s brand, and her efforts on behalf of working women
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
I’ll See Your Troll and Raise You One Notable Woman Scientist
At Backchannel, Andrew McMillen writes on how one young Wikipedia admin fights back at trolls by raising the profile of notable women in science, one new Wikipedia page at a time.