Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
Socialism in one country may be a difficult undertaking, but socialism in many American country towns was as easy as pie -- and just as appetizing
Can She Dig It
"Unearthing lost gems" often reinforces the gendered principles that have excluded women from cultural canons
She Mad and She Magic
Black women's anger towards supposed allies is never taken for the self-preserving force it is
Against Students
Complaining, censorious, and over-sensitive, university students are destroying their own institutions. Wait, seriously? People think that?
I'm Not Ready
The Hillary Clinton campaign casts voters as fans and reveals white feminism’s anti-black bias
Teenage Screams
Sofia Coppola’s oeuvre dramatizes the emotional reality of adolescence without the condescension that comes from age
The Sororal Death
Writing about a disease suffered almost exclusively by women presents the disordering question of form
Ghostbusters
Barbara Johnson showed that while deconstruction had ignored feminism, it was nonetheless inherently a form of feminist critique
♫ Roxane ♫
With a bestselling book and a new site, Roxane Gay is a welcome threat to mainstream feminist sensibilities
Little Orphan Nellie
Nellie Bly was the first “girl reporter,” but as the exception, she was always playing by someone else’s rules
Foreword to Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde
Violette Leduc's autobiographical La bâtarde is an oft-overlooked classic of feminist literature.
Antiporn Land
Antiporn activists target the medium rather than the economic structures that make it profitable
"a disease that would reveal itself to be incurable: the ever more widespread and pressing war of women"
"if the paternal authority that sometimes manifests itself in a merited spanking was to lessen, the family would go to ruin.”
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.