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Still in Monroeville: Disenchanted, White Feminism, and the Suburban Dream That Refuses to Die
Disney asked what happens after happily ever after. The answer was apparently property ownership, emotional labor, and a community committee.
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Stop Letting Old White Men Decide What Counts as History
Why pop music, fashion, fandom and everyday culture belong in the historical record.
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Women Are Not a Mystery. You’re Just Not Listening.
Gender essentialism has convinced men that understanding women is impossible, while women are still expected to understand, anticipate, soothe, and…
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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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July 2026

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…
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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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Working in the Myth Factory - Wham! Bam! Thank You! Slam!
Freedom or Fear? - July 18th, 2026
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Freedom or Fear? The Replay
The stories were brilliant. The company, sublime.
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