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An illustration of a dark-skinned person with long dark hair carrying a shield and a gaming controller, pursued by hate mail, weapons, and grasping hands.
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No Girls Allowed

The fragility of gaming culture.
15 May 2026 13 min read
A computer screen showing a dot-matrix map of Western Europe is surrounded by the words "I'm in control. I make the decisions."
feminism

Does Playing Grand Strategy Games Make Me a Fascist?

Living a life without autonomy has led me to seek out control through video games.
12 May 2026 8 min read
The covers of Nightbitch and The Upstairs House. Nightbitch features a photograph of cut meat, The Upstairs House has an illustration of a two-story gray house.
FlytrapxBitch

Mother Monsters

"Nightbitch," "The Upstairs House," and "Die My Love" bring postpartum psychosis and depression to the big screen.
08 May 2026 7 min read
On a black and white squiggly background, pink lettering reads "Feminism Feels Like An Optical Illusion," with two hands with a futuristic look are reaching out to the lettering.
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feminism

Taking Feminism Back From Capitalism

Techno-fascism and choice feminism have emptied the movement when we need it the most.
05 May 2026 11 min read
Steve Zahn as Mark and Murray Bartlett as Armond in The White Lotus. The men are seated at a bar in conversation.
FlytrapxBitch

“The White Lotus” Shines Its Tiki Torch on Settler Colonization’s Greatest Exports

Can whiteness be centered in our attempt to decolonize? Or is the effort to dismantle settler colonization merely a vessel—a rowboat—for appeasing white shame?
01 May 2026 7 min read
A cartoon-style illustration of Samwise, an orange polydactyl tabby cat, on a smoky blue-black-purple background. Comic-style text reads "We walked through Mordor ... together."
mental health

Who Rescued Who?

The sudden decision to get a cat saved my life, in so many ways.
28 Apr 2026 6 min read
Beyoncé, Zendaya, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Amandla Stenberg, and other Black women sit together on a wooden porch
Beyoncé

Reverberations

The history and legacies of resistance in Black women’s music.
24 Apr 2026 12 min read
A multicolored illustration of a pink hand holding two playing cards; the vibes are 90s-psychedelic. Above the hand, text reads "Isolation is a risky business"
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feminism

Lonely Boys Gambling

Fascism, isolation, and those fucking betting apps.
21 Apr 2026 10 min read
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FlytrapxBitch

Killer Crush

Inside Tumblr’s serial killer fandom.
17 Apr 2026 6 min read
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books

Parry Hotter and the Six-Figure Book Deal

"Pull to publish" adult fantasy based on Dramione fanfic is funneling money to one of the world's most notorious transphobes.
14 Apr 2026 12 min read
A smiling Marie Kondo on the set of her popular television show.
FlytrapxBitch

Blank Slate

Spiritual emptiness is clearing our closets.
10 Apr 2026 10 min read
A still of a luminescent animation from Moana, featuring the title character on a boat with a glowing whale swimming beneath her
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art

Think of What We Can Do, Together

Recent TV and film like “IT: Welcome to Derry” and “Moana 2” show us why we love Artemis II: collectivism and hope are the only way to survive dark times.
07 Apr 2026 8 min read
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FlytrapxBitch

Male Rape is No Joke

But pop culture often treats it that way.
03 Apr 2026 9 min read
A group of three brown-skinned people of an older, middle, and youth generation pose smiling in front of an art museum
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art

The Women Gather: Black Patrons Forge Deep Healing in Art Spaces

Museums are under attack, but Black women curators, artists, and patrons are still nourishing themselves and each other through the arts.
31 Mar 2026 9 min read
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FlytrapxBitch

Marketing the Monster

Has trans identity become a sales pitch?
27 Mar 2026 9 min read
A rainbow-colorful illustration of a brown-skinned woman shopping in a thrift store of delights, featuring a pink guitar, records, a sun hat, and electronics
consumerism

The Paradox of Thrift

My newfound love for thrifting high-quality items inadvertently triggered old childhood traumas and memories of imposter syndrome .
24 Mar 2026 12 min read
Vermeer's "Woman With a Pearl Earring," edited to replace her face with a photo of a brown-skinned woman lighting a cigarette.
FlytrapxBitch

Bad Mouths

The long history of sanitizing women’s language.
20 Mar 2026 9 min read
Children protesting in support of a free Palestine, surrounded by a wreath of oranges. A header reads: "We are the revolution."
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childhood

The Radical Idea That Children Are People

And they deserve rights too.
17 Mar 2026 15 min read
Elizabeth Gilbert and Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday. They're in lounge chairs on a grass lawn, clasping hands and smiling.
FlytrapxBitch

Eat, Pray, Spend

Priv-lit and the new, enlightened American dream.
13 Mar 2026 17 min read
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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media

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.
10 Mar 2026 8 min read
Screenshot: Tara, a white woman character with dark blond hair, leans affectionately into Willow, a white woman character with red hair
FlytrapxBitch

Under Your Spell

Revisiting “Buffy’s” first lesbian kiss 25 years later.
06 Mar 2026 9 min read
Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm
sex work

Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm

No seriously, fuck the algorithm.
03 Mar 2026 14 min read
Illustration in neon yellow and ocean blue symbolizes the Flytrap's collaboration with Bitch: a venus flytrap's swirly tail dots the "I" in Bitch
FlytrapxBitch

Remote Control

Distance learning isn’t a last resort. It’s an opportunity.
27 Feb 2026 7 min read
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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books

Sacred Shelves

Two new books give Black bookstores the reverence they deserve.
24 Feb 2026 11 min read
A woman's head. She has long blonde hair and silver hoops in her ears. The text "look at me" repeats itself across her forehead.
FlytrapxBitch

The Future Is Fembot

What does that mean for women?
20 Feb 2026 9 min read
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