Noah Berlatsky
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Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.
Read...It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.
Read...The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?
Read...Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.
Read..."The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.
Read...Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.
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