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disability

In Living Color

Audio description looks past people of color.
28 Nov 2025 6 min read
Disabled people saying "but what about..." and listing social issues such as marriage inequality and police killings while a blonde white woman screams at them from inside a phone.
FlytrapxBitch

Language Wars

Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.
28 Nov 2025 6 min read
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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.
28 Nov 2025 5 min read
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gender

Berdache

A comic by Shaawan Francis Keahna and Waabanokiizhick Mandosking.
25 Nov 2025 5 min read
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FlytrapxBitch

Red Letter Day

The enduring legacy of Scarleteen, the internet’s best sex-ed site.
21 Nov 2025 10 min read
Flytrap Roundtable Special: The FYP Won't Save Us
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roundtable

Flytrap Roundtable Special: The FYP Won't Save Us

There's profit in AI slop, but more importantly, there's power in community.
18 Nov 2025 10 min read
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Loud and Clear

There is no punk without Black women.
14 Nov 2025 7 min read
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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.
11 Nov 2025 13 min read
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disability

Fake It Off

Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community exposes not con artists, but the politics of disbelief.
07 Nov 2025 6 min read
A from-the-lap view of a cat and a hand holding a remote control. The TV says: "Everyone deserves to have healthy relationships and to feel loved."
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television

Can Coercive Control on TV Interrupt Real Cycles of Intimate Partner Violence?

Television transformed how I think about abuse in romantic relationships.
04 Nov 2025 9 min read
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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.
31 Oct 2025 11 min read
Three Black and Brown children play outside in a meadow, beneath the words KIDS SHOULD INHERIT JOY.
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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.
28 Oct 2025 13 min read
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horror

How I Learned to Love Supernatural Horror

The story of how one exvangelical trans girl found herself marathoning episodes of Supernatural.
24 Oct 2025 13 min read
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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.
21 Oct 2025 12 min read
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ghosts

Ghosts are Just Vibing, Man!

If a ghost has beef with you, maybe that's a you problem.
17 Oct 2025 8 min read
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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.
14 Oct 2025 10 min read
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fiction

Hell in a Handbook

EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents show inner workings of the Underworld's largest afterlife services conglomerate.
10 Oct 2025 3 min read
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh wearing a mask in the colors of the Irish flag. Text above reads "saoirse don Phalaistin" and below "free Palestine."
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colonialism

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

06 Oct 2025 13 min read
Housing Haunts Me

Housing Haunts Me

If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.
03 Oct 2025 9 min read
Purple text on dark background with a wisp of smoke: Nothing surprised Cassandra.
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racism

Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up

Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.
30 Sep 2025 11 min read
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music

Don’t be a Dick: Follow the Karaoke Rules so Everyone Has a Great Time

The social contract might be mostly dead, but we can help revive it one karaoke bar at a time.
23 Sep 2025 7 min read
A woman in a sound booth with a child on her lap.
Argentina

Under Milei, Rural Feminists Fight for Rights and Resources

A feminist community radio station in Argentina has changed rural women's lives, but right-wing government threatens its existence.
16 Sep 2025 9 min read
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film

Peeling Back the Tech Broligarchy's Glass Onion

09 Sep 2025 11 min read
A joyous fat Black woman in a fly outfit standing with a shorter, brown-skinned person in front of an amusement park.
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television

If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations

‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.
02 Sep 2025 18 min read
A blue pen and ink drawing of Kristi Noem on TV looming over a room of people who are not thrilled about it. An Ice Out of South Central banner is in the background.
politics

The Changing Face of Evil: 'ICE Barbie' Kristi Noem’s Transformation and Our Slide into American Fascism

Unlike ghoulish political predecessors such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s appearance is designed for reality TV and her aesthetic reflects the brutality of the Trump administration.
26 Aug 2025 13 min read
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