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Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

May 11, 2022 • by Jill Filipovic

Historically, I think a lot more people would have preferred not to have children if they could have prevented a pregnancy. A stat I have heard is that something like half of all pregnancies in the US are not planned, so if half the people in this country are getting ...

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

Sex & Gender

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Never forget that banning abortion has always been a minority position in this country, one that does not represent the will of the voters.

May 3, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Outlawing abortion is the outcome of a radical conservative minority. The success of this minority has been entirely driven by megadonors and organizations that create voter turnout through disinformation and motivating extremists. The notion that a cluster of cells that cannot survive outside a human host, one that has no ...

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Sex & Gender

Remembering OutWrite

Something extraordinary happens when queer writers gather together

March 15, 2022 • by Julie Enszer

How did OutWrite, the annual conference of queer writers come to be? Let’s time travel for a moment to back to the late 1980s and early 1990s and try to see the world through the eyes of queer people. AIDS is raging. In 1989, 14,646 HIV-infected people died; in 1990, 27,311. ...

Feminism

Not a Labor of Love

The radicalization of motherhood

March 14, 2022 • by Catrin Ashton and Silvia Federici

t was argued that domestic work doesn’t produce any social wealth, is a backward activity, and that it isn’t really part of the capitalist organization of work and, therefore, women who are mostly involved with this kind of work do not have the power to change society....

Feminism

Reading Your bell hooks

Alone, together, or in community, this Black feminist icon always insisted on reading as a transformative act

February 16, 2022 • by Judy Pryor-Ramirez

bell hooks was blessed, and I believe that she transitioned to the land of milk and honey knowing how important her work was for so many people’s lives. Reading bell hooks is an action and a step towards personal and social transformation. ...

Feminism

No, Joan Didion Wasn’t a Feminist

January 26, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Joan Didion and feminism never had much of a relationship when she was alive. And yet, shortly before Christmas, as news of Didion’s death from Parkinson’s disease spread, prominent feminists claimed her as one of their own. Although Didion “wrote scathing commentary on feminism,” novelist Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “she was (of ...

Sex & Gender

Burning the Witch

There have been over 20,000 victims of accusations of witchcraft and related practices over the last decade. What can be done to help ensure more cases of sorcery accusation end in peace and reconciliation?

December 8, 2021 • by Miranda Forsyth

By the time his father died in his childhood home in Papua New Guinea, Father Benedict (not his real name) had been a Jesuit priest for decades. News of the death travelled from the Carterets—a chain of beautiful coral atolls—to Bougainville, one of the main islands, where Father Benedict lives ...

Feminism

What Does It Mean to Be “Written By a Woman?”

How a misleading phrase went viral on TikTok, Twitter, and then became part of the Gen Z lexicon

November 17, 2021 • by Madeleine Janz

He could be skinny or ripped or somewhere in between, but never fat. He’s different from most of the men you meet: He doesn’t catcall, he doesn’t question your rape story, and he would never, ever put anything other than your pleasure and happiness first. He could be old or ...

What Does It Mean to Be “Written By a Woman?”

Feminism

Getting an Abortion in Buffalo

I terminated a pregnancy in my twenties. Decades later, I’m still learning the full truth of reproductive justice.

November 16, 2021 • by Christen Clifford

My boyfriend told me he wanted to keep it—he wanted another chance at fatherhood. He was 45 and I was 20. He’d left a daughter a few years younger than me behind in Dublin. He drank. And I was in fucking college. At Women’s Health Services on Main Street in Buffalo, ...

Gender

The Making of a Girl

New School Alum Melissa Febos uses memoir to understand the startling shame of becoming a woman in the eyes of others in this excerpt of her book Girlhood

October 20, 2021 • by Melissa Febos

"I got my period when I was ten, and I’d been reading Judy Blume books for a while so I knew it was coming," said Tanaïs. "And when it came, I wasn’t prepared for it anymore." A 2011 American Association of University Women (AAUW) school survey shows that early development ...

Feminism

Kathy Acker’s Astrologer Told Her She Would Meet Somebody—and That Was Me

A conversation with McKenzie Wark, one of our most dazzling contemporary theorists, about what we can learn from one of America’s most dazzling postmodern writers

September 17, 2021 • by Claire Potter and McKenzie Wark

Claire Potter: Let’s begin where the book begins—your relationship with Kathy Acker. McKenzie Wark: I should start by saying that the relationship was incredibly brief. She had a lot of them. It is the kind of thing she did—fall massively in love with somebody. It would last a few weeks, as it did ...

Kathy Acker’s Astrologer Told Her She Would Meet Somebody—and That Was Me

Feminism

Preserving the Life—and Autonomy—of the Mother

By enshrining a Christian stance on abortion in its legal code, Texas has ignored Judaic law and ethics

September 8, 2021 • by Jessica Bush and Samantha Klein

_____ To be pro-choice means to regard abortion as healthcare and consenting to sex as separate to consenting to pregnancy. Despite the United States’ tumultuous relationship with accessible medical services, since 1973, women and people with uteruses have been able to rely on the protection of Roe v. Wade. They have ...

Sex & Gender

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Never forget that banning abortion has always been a minority position in this country, one that does not represent the will of the voters.

Remembering OutWrite

Something extraordinary happens when queer writers gather together

Not a Labor of Love

The radicalization of motherhood

Reading Your bell hooks

Alone, together, or in community, this Black feminist icon always insisted on reading as a transformative act

No, Joan Didion Wasn’t a Feminist

Burning the Witch

There have been over 20,000 victims of accusations of witchcraft and related practices over the last decade. What can be done to help ensure more cases of sorcery accusation end in peace and reconciliation?

What Does It Mean to Be “Written By a Woman?”

How a misleading phrase went viral on TikTok, Twitter, and then became part of the Gen Z lexicon

Getting an Abortion in Buffalo

I terminated a pregnancy in my twenties. Decades later, I’m still learning the full truth of reproductive justice.

Kathy Acker’s Astrologer Told Her She Would Meet Somebody—and That Was Me

A conversation with McKenzie Wark, one of our most dazzling contemporary theorists, about what we can learn from one of America’s most dazzling postmodern writers

Preserving the Life—and Autonomy—of the Mother

By enshrining a Christian stance on abortion in its legal code, Texas has ignored Judaic law and ethics

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