Khadijah Costley White’s sister was diagnosed with an incurable disease six years ago, and needs help with every aspect of daily life, including eating, bathing, shopping, and getting dressed. The Affordable Care Act helps her with none of that. Last Friday, I woke up to a desperate text from my sister: “I am truly overwhelmed […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. You Might Not Be Beautiful The Way You Are by Katy Waldman of Slate.com reports on a New York City girls project, saying that Bloomberg’s worthwhile self-esteem campaign needs a new slogan. 2. First Comes […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. America Tells Boys Not To Be ‘Girly’ by Soraya Chemaly of Salon.com says mocking boys for doing ‘feminine’ things leaves them ill-equipped for life, and makes America a worse place for all. 2. Gender As […]
Author Hanna Rosin claims that feminists need to accept that the patriarchy is dead. Here, Abigail Collazo argues that it’s alive and well. It’s become pretty clear to me that author Hanna Rosin wants to be one of the boys. What do I mean by this? She wants to gain validity and acceptance from the […]
Neither woman has used their public platform to really address the racism they face as Asian American women. Here’s why Khadijah Costley White thinks they should. Last week, the victorious bid of the first Indian-American Miss America, Nina Davuluri, and an admission about plastic surgery from TV personality Julie Chen has recently pushed forward a widespread […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. An App To Help Women Avoid Street Harassment by Judith Ohikuare of The Atlantic reports on the challenges of collecting data on where people do and don’t feel safe. 2. Confessions Of A Minority Darling […]
The last few weeks have been filled with “news” reports of celebrity indiscretions and beauty pageants, but does any of that really deserve so much of our attention? Monday morning I got up and turned to my favorite mainstream media outlet, Facebook, to see what was going on in the world. According to many posts […]
People are quick to label things as “obscene” these days—including teen girls’ online photos and pop star performances. So Soraya Chemaly wants to clarify what obscene really means when it comes to girls, women, bodies, what they do, what they’re for, and what happens to them in our country. Earlier this month, hot on the […]
Pax Dickinson and Robin Thicke recently defended their misogynistic actions by saying, “I can’t be sexist, I’m married.” Emily Heist Moss explains why married men can still be sexist assholes. Excuse me, married men, may I please have your attention? (I’m looking at you, Pax Dickinson). From this moment forward, I declare a moratorium on […]
American society brainwashes women everywhere into believing that making themselves a certain kind of beautiful can change their lives. Last night, Nina Davuluri, an American woman of Indian descent, became Miss America, and the country’s many racist crazies took to Twitter to embarrass themselves. The U.S. blogosphere has thankfully responded with righteous indignation, but the […]
When will the world stop telling rape victims that they are victims of their own behavior? For the last several weeks, consent has been weighing heavily on my mind. It started with Betsy Karasik’s misguided and, frankly, misinformed Washington Post op-ed about statutory rape involving teachers and their students. To Karasik, the “utter hysteria” surrounding […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. You Can’t Have It All, But You Can Have Cake by Delia Ephron of The New York Times redefines what “having it all” means today. 2. On Becoming A Father by Alexis C. Madrigal of […]
