Tag: women

How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”

Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.

The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.

The commodification of female friendship began in the suburban living room. Today, it’s booming online.

A reading list dedicated to queer and trans comedians, and comedians of color.

Carl Wilson argues that her genius has been overlooked for far too long, because of her gender.

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

In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.

An interview with Seyward Darby about her Harper’s cover story on gender dynamics within the alt-right.

Sixteen percent of women suffer from a condition you’ve probably never heard of.

Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.

In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?

Comey wrote about attempting to avoid being alone with President Trump.

“I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”

Kate Gavino shares five stories about forgotten women authors, from Anita Brookner to Nancy Mitford.

Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.

Prince gave a lot of music away—much of it to women he thought would do it justice.

The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic case of “be careful what you wish for” for conservative women.

Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?

How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.

At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.

Katherine Laidlaw recalls an abusive relationship in which her boyfriend threatened her with a boxcutter.

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).

Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?

How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.

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

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.

Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard […]

My alcohol story seems like a non-story: I grew up in a home of teetotalers.

Stories about diversity in the comic books industry.