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State of the B(l)og

Join us for a peek under the peat.
07 May 2025 5 min read
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programming notes

Celebrating Six Months of The Flytrap

Hot Flytrap deals in your area! Feminist media creators want to connect with you now!
05 May 2025 2 min read
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religion

Can the American Secular Movement Listen to Its Better Angels?

More Americans are secular than ever. Can the institutions meant to represent them keep up?
05 May 2025 20 min read
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education

The Robin Hood of For-Profit Education

Matriculating into the University of Phoenix under my dad’s name was a way to repay him for all of his hard work, but in the end I could only take him so far.
28 Apr 2025 14 min read
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family

Why the Youths Are Choosing Avocado Toast Over Marriage

This time it's not just millennials ruining everything.
20 Apr 2025 9 min read
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social media

#DeathTok is Actually Full of Life

The dead and dying people in this micro community on TikTok are seizing control of their own stories and death journeys.
11 Apr 2025 10 min read
Illustration in pink, blue, and white: A "trans on trains" badge against a transit map.
urban planning

Why Are So Many Trans People Into Urban Planning?

Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
07 Apr 2025 7 min read
Illustration: An anime magical boy looking fiercely at the camera, katana sheathed on his back.
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pop culture

The Case for Magical Boys

01 Apr 2025 8 min read
Illustration: A map of Brazil overlaid with a huge pink bag of money that bears the Brazilian flag.
pop culture

You’ve heard of Pink Money, but have you heard of Brazil Money?

Will the global north ever love Brazilian culture as much as it loves our money?
24 Mar 2025 7 min read
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pop culture

Virginity is Fake, So Why is it Still a Rite of Passage?

Despite its reputation as a sexist film, I rewatched “American Pie” and some parts still hold up for me, more than 25 years later.
16 Mar 2025 6 min read
Illustration: A stack of cookbooks overlaid with "A motherfucker could NEVER."
books

A New Era for Latino Cookbooks

Latino cookbooks written by Latino people used to be an anomaly, but with the publication of “SalviSoul” and “Bodega Bakes,” the canon is expanding even further.
05 Mar 2025 9 min read
Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell)
Cancel Me, Daddy

Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell)

The "Cancel Me, Daddy" podcast transcript and show notes for 3/6/2025
04 Mar 2025 1 min read
Illustration: A tropical-print shirt with an eShakti tag and the words "The Enshittification of eShakti"
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fashion

The Enshittification of eShakti

eShakti ghosted workers and customers alike, and the dream of something better than fast fashion died with it.
03 Mar 2025 8 min read
Illustration: Waves of garbage washing up on a beach.

Fellas, Is Trash Praxis?

The greenwashing is coming from inside the house.
24 Feb 2025 8 min read
Illustration: A lush Puerto Rican landscape. In the foreground, a pair of brown hands hold up a shattered heart with the word "home."
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pop culture

“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text

09 Feb 2025 8 min read
Illustration: Jonathan Chaidt looking like a giant tool.
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religion

Haidt Crimes: On Moral Foundations Theory and the Normalization of Fascism

Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us.
09 Feb 2025 11 min read
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Christopher

Fearing the man society could have made me into.
03 Feb 2025 9 min read
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abuse and abusers

Flytrap Roundtable Special: That Whole Awful Neil Gaiman Thing

Can 'cool male feminists' have it all? They'd sure like to!
29 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Reality Bytes

So-called ‘AI,’ performative ignorance, and old-fashioned human assholery are degrading reality as we know it.
27 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Pay Me What You Owe Me

Independent media always gets homages on social media after it shutters – what if that support amounted to monetary donations that helped keep it alive and thriving?
20 Jan 2025 8 min read
Illustration: An aggressive muscle car with a BROSKI plate and a giant hovering skull surrounded by the text "cities are designed by men."
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urban planning

Cities Are Designed By Men – and it Shows

Urbanism is full of critical feminist issues, but the lack of women helping to shape American cities endangers us all.
13 Jan 2025 6 min read
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politics

Quitting Men Isn't a Political Strategy

06 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Yet Another End-of-Year Recommendations Post!

Here's What the Flyteam Ate Up in 2024.
29 Dec 2024 13 min read
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family

Feast of the Seven Fishes and Eight Abs

Canceling Vinny Guadagnino and Christmas Eve at the Jersey Shore.
22 Dec 2024 14 min read
Illustration in green and black: A long-haired person faces a billboard advertising "The Substance" while a syringe oozes green goo.
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pop culture

The Substance Asks the Question: Can Hollywood Escape Its Own Beauty Standards?

The latest feminist film about society’s obsession with youth never answers its own question.
09 Dec 2024 9 min read
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