The proliferation of smartphone usage has been a boon to women, providing them the autonomy and privacy they often need to access boundary-pushing comedy online. Read more
Deep within these celebrities, fans can find home. A warm womb-like enclosure far removed from the niggling, “don’t bring your muddy shoes in here,” “you take all my money” moms and dads. Bringing its fans into a gleaming, no-rules fantasy land where you can turn up the TV loud and leave your clothes all over the floor. Read more
When I was a kid, Roseanne was a person who challenged the order of things. Now, it feels like she’s upholding it. Read more
Our choices as storytellers are having real-world effects, so we need to be smarter about the types of stories we help to tell. Read more
Whitman was haunted by the prospect that we would lack a ‘common skeleton.’ Read more
Anne Sexton’s legacy as feminist poet and guiding light for the mentally ill must include the destruction of her own daughter. Read more
When people critique relationships with age differences, I suspect they’re concerned not about the effects of the patriarchy, but about young women expressing agency. Read more
Black Panther’s villain isn’t my villain at all. He’s my hero. Read more
‘Healing from abuse has taught me to believe in magic. How else would we be able to alchemize violence into a loving vision of hope?’ Read more
‘I’m an amputee and this image is one of the first I’ve created that addresses what being disabled is, sans able-bodied expectations.’ Read more
