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Stop Gendering the Entire Human Personality
Courage, care, ambition and vulnerability do not belong to separate sexes.
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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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The Smithsonian’s Real Crime Was Refusing to Provide Emotional Support for Nationalism
America’s museums are being punished for doing history instead of reassuring the country that it has always been the hero.
Jul 11
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They Lost the Abortion Vote, So Now They’re Coming for the Pills
We're watching democracy be forced to run a marathon while state legislatures keeps moving the finish line.
Jul 9
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If Removing the Impalement Scenes Ruins the Game for You, We Need to Talk
On Lara Croft, gendered violence, and the things some players don't want examined too closely.
Jul 7
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You Look Like Stevie Nicks in '75
Or: Why Patriarchy Keeps Making Women Compete With Themselves
Jul 3
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The Past Is Not Dead. It’s Under Active Renovation.
Why every fight about history is really a fight about power.
Jul 1
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1970s: “Innocence Is Sexier Than You Think” - Primary Source Tea
Artifacts from the Patriarchy - From Ivory Soap to Love’s Baby Soft, the beauty industry kept asking women to be softer, younger, and less like adults.
Jul 1
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The State Always Has an Opinion About Your Body
The Orville, Topa, and the Institutions That Decide Who Gets to Exist
Jun 30
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Women Keep Having the Audacity to Choose
Male Grievance, Historical Illiteracy, and Why Some Men Think Feminism Is the Problem
Jun 29
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Feminism Didn’t Steal Your Glass Slipper
A historian takes on choice feminism, anti-feminist nostalgia, and the claim that women’s freedom ruined women’s lives.
Jun 27
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The Waiting Room Is Everywhere
Ireland may be ending its three-day abortion waiting period. Unfortunately, the much older waiting period is still alive and well.
Jun 24
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Ain’t I a Woman? Again?
Michelle Obama, misogynoir, trans panic, and the very old American hobby of pretending Black women are not women
Jun 22
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Please Laugh Now
How television used fake audiences to teach Americans what was normal
Jun 21
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