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The Radical Idea That Children Are People

And they deserve rights too.

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Eat, Pray, Spend

Priv-lit and the new, enlightened American dream.

A brown-skinned person with curly dark hair, black painted nails, and gold jewelry reading a newspaper about "the friendly fascist next door."

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How the Religious Right Won the Trump Era

Media failed to reckon with the evangelical support for Trump and we’re all paying the price.

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Under Your Spell

Revisiting “Buffy’s” first lesbian kiss 25 years later.

Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm

Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm

No seriously, fuck the algorithm.

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Remote Control

Distance learning isn’t a last resort. It’s an opportunity.

An illustration featuring the front of a Black-owned bookstore; a Black person with braids is pictured out front alongside an orange kitty and a sign reading "gathering is sacred here"

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Sacred Shelves

Two new books give Black bookstores the reverence they deserve.

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The Future Is Fembot

What does that mean for women?

A woman's hand with long pink anti-ICE nails over the face of a screaming man. Overlaid text: ABOLISH ICE.

Pretty In Pink

Inside the community of nail artists telling ICE to get fucked.

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Sweet Hereafter

The bitter past and promising future of sugarcane.

A blue and white illustration headed: "Connection is resistance. Find each other. Don't let go." It features various community members and a joyfully human vibe.

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Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely

Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

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Sticky Fingers

What have we learned from a decade of sexting?

A Black woman wearing an orange jumpsuit, in purple light, with a prison cell in the background. On her chest, on the right, it says "ain't we women, too?"

Ain't We Women, Too?

For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.

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Helen Keller Conspiracy Theories Are Awash With Ableism

We don't need better social media moderation: We need to dismantle stereotypes about disabled people.

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I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry”

'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?

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Craving the Other

One person’s beef with cultural appropriation and cuisine.

A person wearing headphones looks out their window. A cat is also looking out the window. It says "Break up albums bring us closer to each other, even if our pain feels unique.

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The People Yearn For Breakup Gossip

Lilly Allen's "West End Girl" is full of raw honesty—but why do listeners crave this frankness?

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Good White People Can Be Racist, Too

Complicity can often look like delusional optimism.

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What Black Homes Remember

From plastic-covered couches to Black Jesus portraits, Black interior design preserves history amid rampant displacement.

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To Fandom, With Love

Fanfic lets us imagine a better world together.

A coffeeshop scene including a newspaper with the headline "Last Le Dollar Bean Bar to Close, Say Allies" along the usual coffeehouse accoutrements.

Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me

Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

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The Fragility of Body Positivity

How a radical movement lost its way.

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No, You Shouldn't Ignore Your Dad’s Racism Just Because He Cuts Turkey Good

'Tis the season for a scolding over the so-called 'family estrangement crisis.'

A Southeast Asian person and a Black person, both visually impaired, sit at a table cluttered with art supplies as they paint figurines.

Love Sick

It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.

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Go Girl, Give Us Nothing!: Why Hollywood Undervalues Original Storytelling

Why do studios keep pumping out sequels, reboots, and remakes of the same old IP?