childhood 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.'
Paid-members only film 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?
film Bad (White) Moms Dominate Christmas Movies It's Christmas movie season. Why do so many feature bad moms?
Paid-members only media The Current Journalism Model Isn't Working. One journalist reflects on how easy it is to burn out in her industry.
FlytrapxBitch Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.
FlytrapxBitch Language Wars Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.
access The Complex Future of Post-Pandemic Work The COVID-19 pandemic showed that remote work is possible for many industries, but it’s still unclear what the future of remote work is five years later.
Paid-members only roundtable Flytrap Roundtable Special: The FYP Won't Save Us There's profit in AI slop, but more importantly, there's power in community.
Paid-members only activism Amid Fierce Patriarchal Backlash and Surging Fascism, Does Freeing the Nipple Still Matter? A transgender woman with “indecent” breasts makes the case that topless equality is still worth fighting for.
disability Fake It Off Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community exposes not con artists, but the politics of disbelief.
Paid-members only television Can Coercive Control on TV Interrupt Real Cycles of Intimate Partner Violence? Television transformed how I think about abuse in romantic relationships.
Subcultures Inside the Tiny, Weird World of Halloween ‘Villaging' As part of this Boomer-coded subculture, two companies vie for the attention of weirdos like me, who prefer to spend their time—and money—constructing small, spooky landscapes.
Paid-members only racism No Perfect Neighbors in White Supremacy A new film that subverts the gaze of the surveillance state asks how we can build a better world for all children.
horror How I Learned to Love Supernatural Horror The story of how one exvangelical trans girl found herself marathoning episodes of Supernatural.
Paid-members only grief In a Time of Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline The comfort found in reading about loss will never replace the need to be in community with grievers.
Paid-members only film Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.
fiction Hell in a Handbook EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents show inner workings of the Underworld's largest afterlife services conglomerate.
