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The Work of Women Is the Work of Civilization
Civilization does not require women’s subordination. It requires women’s work, which is exactly why patriarchy worked so hard to control it
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The “You Can Pry the 19th Amendment From Our Cold Dead Hands” Sale
Get 26% off an annual Bitchy History subscription throughout August, because apparently “women are individual citizens” remains a controversial…
Jul 31
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Why College Girls Dressed “That Way”
How a 1946 newspaper article turned college women’s comfort into a postwar gender crisis.
Jul 30
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1941: Sanforized Fabric - Primary Source Tea
Artifacts from the Patriarchy - The Shirt, the Chokehold, and the World's Most Casual Patriarchy
Jul 29
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The Smithsonian Hearing That Wanted an Uncomplicated America
At the House Oversight Committee’s “Rewriting American History” hearing, historical complexity was treated as bias—and bad history as patriotism.
Jul 26
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I Didn’t Abandon My Convictions. I Followed Them Out of the Republican Party
I was good at conservative media. Leaving meant admitting that the movement rewarding me did not believe in the values it had taught me to defend.
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The New Missionaries: Trump Is Exporting America’s Culture War
The United States is using foreign aid, Christian political networks, and colonial legal systems to impose Republican ideas about gender and…
Jul 22
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Freedom or Fear? - July 18th, 2026
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Freedom or Fear? The Replay
Watch now | The stories were brilliant. The company, sublime.
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A Field Guide to The Patriarchy for the Beginner
No, it is not a secret council of men in robes. It is worse. It is boring, ordinary, institutional, and everywhere people insist it isn’t.
Jul 19
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Academic Freedom Is Expensive, and They Know It
The government does not have to ban my research to threaten it. It only has to make the cost of doing it unbearable.
Jul 17
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1969: Tipalet Cigarette Ad - Primary Source Tea
Artifacts from the Patriarchy - Just Blow Smoke in Her Face, Apparently
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Stop Gendering the Entire Human Personality
Courage, care, ambition and vulnerability do not belong to separate sexes.
Jul 15
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It’s Not About Babies. It’s About Which Babies.
On pronatalism, eugenics, and the Republican obsession with producing the “right” kind of future.
Jul 13
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