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  • It’s Still Harder To Be A Woman In The Workplace Today

    by Josie Gleave
  • Poor People Deserve To Eat Whatever The Hell They Want

    by Jody Allard
  • Janelle Monáe’s ‘Pynk’ Is More Than A Glorious Ode To The Vagina

    by Chelsea Cristene
  • Marital Status Should Not Define A Woman

    by Noelle Sullivan
  • Why We Should Celebrate When Couples Move In Together (Instead Of When They Get Married)

    By Elisabeth Kramer
    April 3, 2018

    Over the last five decades, the percentage of couples who live together before marriage has increased by nearly 900 percent. If we think of a wedding as a coming-of-age ceremony, it merits the kind of pomp and circumstance that’s currently the norm. But a wedding isn’t a coming-of-age ceremony — at least for the vast majority of […]

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  • Why I Won’t Be Watching The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot

    By Brett Riley
    April 2, 2018

    Roseanne Connor is willing to threaten an entire class of elementary-school children, in public, for Mark’s sake, yet she voted for, and still defends, a politician who would invalidate Mark as a full American citizen. On Tuesday, March 27, the reboot of the ABC television sitcom Roseanne debuted to 18.2 million viewers. The original show (1988-1997) […]

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  • How Employers Penalize Women For Being Smart

    By Kali Holloway
    March 28, 2018

    Power and success are seen as masculine virtues, and women who possess one or both are penalized for essentially not staying in what’s perceived to be their lane. In yet more evidence that oppression is the business model and the entire economy is based on fuckery, a new study finds that being an academic superstar might actually hurt […]

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  • Things I Don’t Want To Tell My Son

    By Khadijah Costley White
    March 27, 2018

    I will have to tell him that there are people who don’t see him as human. It must feel weightless to be white. This thought occurs to me as I lean over to pour brown sugar into my coffee, next to a handsome white male undergrad also seeking out a burst of caffeine. He is […]

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  • The Problem With ‘Feminist’ Sex Products

    By Suzannah Weiss
    March 23, 2018

    It seems ironic that the products claiming to combat shame around our sexuality are helping us hide it — and implying that we need to. On February 4, an email arrived in my inbox advertising Lorals, a pair of lingerie designed to be worn during oral sex. I was confused. Why would I want anything (besides a dental dam, perhaps) […]

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  • How Income Disparity Affects My Middle-Class Family

    By Lee Chilcote
    March 21, 2018

    There’s only one problem with paradise: it reminds you how unattainable it is. The excitement builds for weeks, with the kids coming in to our room each morning to ask, “Are we going to see Grammie and Granddad today?” Finally, we get up in the middle of the night, load the mini-van, curb-check the car […]

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  • On Trusting Women And My Own Intuition

    By Jessica Schreindl
    March 20, 2018

    By learning to discount my feelings, I was learning to trust others more than I trusted myself. I’m standing in the kitchen stirring my coffee, contemplating the article I’m about to write – there’s a sinking feeling in my chest and a knot in my belly. My attention is drawn to my mouth; I can feel […]

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  • An Unwanted Kiss By A Woman Is Still Sexual Assault

    By Jody Allard
    March 15, 2018

    Our boys deserve to know their bodies belong to them, and that they too have the right to say no. Singer Katy Perry made the news yesterday for planting a kiss on an American Idol contestant during an episode that aired during the two-part season premiere. It was the first kiss for contestant Benjamin Glaze, […]

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