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Art & Design

HE 2 SHE: Artist Pippa Garner Hacks Her Gender

The neo-conceptual oracle of West Coast transhumanism gets her New York minute

April 15, 2024 • by Abby Merrick

Pippa Garner is a fabulous, mercurial artist with an extrasensory attunement to cultural shifts, a habit of self-mythologization, and a taste for absurdity. ...

<em>HE 2 SHE</em>: Artist Pippa Garner Hacks Her Gender

Body & Mind

Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter

Two billionaire fathers undergo a peculiar, public psychosis

March 25, 2024 • by Justin Joque

What defines Musk and Ackman’s psychosis is no longer their relation to their symbolic fathers, but their relation to that of their daughters’....

History

Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective

In her latest book, historian Tiya Miles explores how some marginalized but eminent American women were shaped by the call of the wild

December 4, 2023 • by Brianna Corley

In her latest book, Wild Girls, Harvard historian Tiya Miles is particularly concerned with how the relationship with nature established by several nineteenth-century women—some prominent, some not—helped them flourish outside of conventional gender roles. ...

Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective

Interviews

Helen Schulman in Conversation about Lucky Dogs

Her latest novel explores the nuances and paradoxes of the #MeToo movement ignited by the Harvey Weinstein case

November 14, 2023 • by Brianna Corley and Helen Schulman

Though Lucky Dogs examines both the #MeToo movement and the nature of civil war (between women, between cultures), Schulman is quick to add that Lucky Dogs is also meant to be funny—as in fact the author is herself....

Helen Schulman in Conversation about <em>Lucky Dogs</em>

Literature

Helen Schulman’s New Novel Is a Nail-Biter

Lucky Dogs offers a home for strays

November 13, 2023 • by Paloma Velasco

I was a nail-biter in high school. I stopped when I went to college, embarrassed by what now seemed like a childish lack of control. Last week, Helen Schulman’s new anxiety-inducing novel, Lucky Dogs, made me relapse....

Helen Schulman’s New Novel Is a Nail-Biter

Activism

Liliana’s Invincible Summer

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Cristina Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister

November 6, 2023 • by Cristina Rivera Garza

Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—today....

Past Present

The New Crisis of Masculinity

Episode 392

September 19, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the latest “crisis of masculinity.”...

Feminism

Barbie in Herland

Greta Gerwig meets Charlotte Perkins Gilman

August 30, 2023 • by Sandrine Bergès

What is perhaps most striking in both stories is the discovery that the Real World and Ourland are both barbaric places dominated by murderous men....

Sex & Gender

An Ambitious Woman after the End of Ambition

When you don’t shift with the vibe

February 9, 2023 • by Jill Filipovic

Ambition has always been a squicky term when applied to women....

An Ambitious Woman after the End of Ambition

Podcast

First, Pick the Right Wife

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 8

January 4, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Robin Morris, author of "From Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" about how women activists transformed the GOP ...

Feminism

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online

Historian and activist Saniya Lee Ghanoui explains how a feminist classic entered the twenty-first century

October 27, 2022 • by Saniya Lee Ghanoui and Claire Potter

When we started, we knew we needed experts from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Women and gender-expansive people from different races brought their own perspectives, personal and expert, and that would help us address racial health disparities. ...

Gender

What Does It Mean to Be “Authentic”?

Skye C. Cleary chats with Luis Jaramillo about her new book on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy-from-life method

October 11, 2022 • by Skye C. Cleary and Luis Jaramillo

Finding your “authentic self” is often taken to mean: “Let’s turn inward and look for the blueprint that’s going to tell us what decisions we should make and that will make us happy.” But Beauvoir argued that we’re humans who are always growing, always changing....