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  • We Did Not Kill the Girlboss: As AI, She Is Killing Us

    AI women are data-verified fantasies about women's labor and dispositions brought to mechanical life

    Jul 15 - Sarah Hagaman
    culture

    AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand

    There are all kinds of slow movements, slow food, slow families. Perhaps it’s time for slow writing

    Jul 11 - Deb Werrlein
    culture Screenshot from the film "Little Women"

    Dean Spade’s Love Letter to the Gay, Horny, and Confused

    Friendship is a truth I have settled in over and over again, each time with a fresh sigh of relief

    Apr 7 - Malavika Kannan
    culture Photo by Rendy Novantino on Unsplash

    Jon M. Chu’s Wicked Understands Politics Are Personal

    In the film adaptation of the musical, Elphaba and Glinda’s friendship is at the center of the film’s politics

    Mar 17 - Courtney DuChene
    culture

    No, Women Can’t Just Ignore Online Harassment

    An excerpt from Alia Dastagir’s “To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person”

    Feb 28 - Alia Dastagir
    culture

    The Neuroqueers Take the Ton

    Bridgerton celebrates, rather than pathologizes or makes a spectacle of, its potentially neurodivergent characters

    Jan 8 - Aisling Walsh
    culture

    The Scariest Monsters Are The Ones We Can’t See

    When it comes to body horror, "Drag Me To Hell"’s gross camp terrified me more than "Safe"’s pretty restraint

    May 28 - Mariah Stovall
    culture

    Black Americans Are Collectively Assumed To Be Socially and Politically Liberal

    The Black Feminism of Beyonce and Megan Thee Stallion helped me move beyond my socially conservative upbringing

    May 23 - Jennifer Stewart
    Personal Narrative

    I Loved “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Before I Loved Myself

    With each rewatch, I got further from the me I was in high school and closer to my truest self

    Oct 26 - Zefyr Lisowski
    Books & Culture A woman screaming with blood on her body

    I Was Too Quick To Call Out Cultural Appropriation

    George Harrison went from chief villain to unlikely hero in my story of how Indian music came to the West

    Oct 24 - Kavita Das
    culture George Harrison in a car

    Joan Didion, Meet Seema Patel

    “And Just Like That” portrays a loneliness that isn’t empowering or aspirational or beautiful

    Oct 19 - Kelsey Shelton
    Books & Culture Seema and Carrie from “And Just Like That” standing in the rain with umbrellas

    I’m Still Unlearning Widespread Pathologies About My Race

    Cause and effect are at the heart of the struggles of Black communities in America

    Oct 5 - Fred McKindra
    culture A man wearing a hat and denim shirt sits on a ledge while lights from the city glow behind him.
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