Influencers sunnily declaring that their home workouts are something ‘anyone can fit into their day!’ are preaching to an extremely privileged subgroup. The fact is that multitudes of women don’t have the time, space, or social environment to roll out a yoga mat in their living room and cram in some burpees. Read more
The vast majority of my canvassers were queer people or people of color, working hard to change their hometowns by being an active presence in them. And they recognized, cogently, that their own liberation was bound up in the issues of their neighbors, which led to them to reach out their hand and knock on those doors. Read more
Dismantling the homogenizing consumerism of fashion means celebrating the hidden radical histories erased by corporations, whether those be the politics of class, race, gender or sexuality. Read more
What’s insidious about this phrase is that it assumes we have stable and agreed upon definitions of fraught terms like “sex” and “power.” The phrase ushers us past the physicality of sex and violence all together in favor of an abstraction. Read more
North Kensington residents look back on a disaster, and what it means for their community. Read more
The way we talk about ‘adulting’ is classist. Read more
The troubling new way America’s top 1% reproduce their privilege ensures the middle class never has a shot to catch up. Read more
The idea that Trump’s gaudy excess is what poor people imagine of wealth is dangerously classist. Read more
Without remembering, I’m just another career-oriented White girl who wants a gym in her building. And I hate that girl. Read more
