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.
colonialism Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.
Paid-members only racism Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.
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.
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.
film Peeling Back the Tech Broligarchy's Glass Onion 'Knives Out: Glass Onion’ skewered the tech industry. Three years later, the film remains an urgent call to reclaim entertainment and tech from the broligarchy.
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.
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.
racism Racialized Credibility Why are white women’s scams fascinating, but Black women’s successes suspicious?
aging A Woman of a Certain Age Chrissy Stroop reflects on what aging means to her as a trans woman—and what it says about liberation for aged and aging people.
pop culture Hate-Reading Wirecutter in the Nascent Era of AI Slop I love the feeling of being recommended to, rather than recommended at. So-called “AI” is making that harder than ever.
pop culture Upending the Male (Film) Gaze The Flytrap spoke to the community organizers diversifying film culture away from the whims of film bros.
pop culture If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?
programming notes Featured We've Gone UNION, Baby! The Flytrap is partnering with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies.
social media Deny, Defend, Depose, Slay: How Luigi Mangione Became a Thirst Trap Luigi Mangione almost sparked a grassroots rebellion against health insurance companies. Instead, we got more stan culture.
resistance to fascism The District of Abortion Washington, D.C.’s murky legal status could have a devastating ripple effect on abortion nationwide.
pop culture Does It Really Matter if ASMR Is a Sex Thing? The debate over whether ASMR is a fetish opens a can of worms about human sexuality — and workplace safety.
abuse and abusers We Got Women’s Safety All Wrong Not only does gender-based violence remain pervasive, narratives of fear are successfully pushing us toward increasingly carceral solutions.
fashion Queer Joy! at the Bra Store How the lingerie boutique where I worked as a bra fitter became an intimate space for shared queerness.
aging ‘Take Care of Your Own, As Long As You Can’ For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.
resistance to fascism The Quiet Provocation of Flying the Mexican Flag As more Mexican flags sprouted up in my North Carolina neighborhood, I could not figure out if my neighbors wanted to symbolize immigrant pride or their fatigue over Trump’s shit.
