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A collection of 35 posts

Two Afropunk attendees, a Black man wearing iridescent pasties and a Black woman with green hair and a striped black and white top.

Who Owns Afropunk?

Once a DIY passion project, Afropunk has strayed from its Black roots. Can the festival escape colonization?

Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi and Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries.

Soul Makeover

“The Princess Diaries” is a time capsule of the girl power era.

Illustration: A nude brown-skinned woman with a beaded necklace leaning forward. A magical-looking waterfall and lush tropical plants are framed between her legs.

Paradise Lost

What hedonistic tourism costs the Global South.

a still shot of Reese Witherspoon, a white woman with blonde hair, as the character Elle Woods in Legally Blonde. She is holding a chihuahua in a sweater.

What, Like It’s Hard?

Twenty-five years later, the legacy of “Legally Blonde” lives on.

Annie Segarra, a Latinx American person, sits in a wheelchair wearing a rainbow skirt next to a doorstep and door that reads “Make Pride Accessible.”

(Un)safe Refuge

The built-in ableism in queer spaces.

A dark-skinned person with long black hair riding a bird soaring high above the water, trailing flower petals.

Good Grief

Why does mourning have an expiration date?

Shrek and Donkey from the movie Shrek. Shrek's mouth is open while Donkey looks at him attentively.

Layered Onion

Remembering “Shrek,” the ironic film that poked fun at us.

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.

No Girls Allowed

The fragility of gaming culture.

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.

Mother Monsters

"Nightbitch," "The Upstairs House," and "Die My Love" bring postpartum psychosis and depression to the big screen.

Steve Zahn as Mark and Murray Bartlett as Armond in The White Lotus. The men are seated at a bar in conversation.

“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?

A banner reading FlytrapxBich in sage lettering on a yellow and white checkered background.

Killer Crush

Inside Tumblr’s serial killer fandom.

A smiling Marie Kondo on the set of her popular television show.

Blank Slate

Spiritual emptiness is clearing our closets.

An illustration of a blue old-school computer on a yellow desk. The computer screen shows a blue pixelated t-rex and "The Flytrap x bitch" featuring both publications' logos

Male Rape is No Joke

But pop culture often treats it that way.

Illustration of a large dark blue, red, and black monster with horns and a long tail curled up, pushing its hands against the red edge of the frame.

Marketing the Monster

Has trans identity become a sales pitch?

Vermeer's "Woman With a Pearl Earring," edited to replace her face with a photo of a brown-skinned woman lighting a cigarette.

Bad Mouths

The long history of sanitizing women’s language.

Elizabeth Gilbert and Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday. They're in lounge chairs on a grass lawn, clasping hands and smiling.

Eat, Pray, Spend

Priv-lit and the new, enlightened American dream.

Screenshot: Tara, a white woman character with dark blond hair, leans affectionately into Willow, a white woman character with red hair

Under Your Spell

Revisiting “Buffy’s” first lesbian kiss 25 years later.

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

Remote Control

Distance learning isn’t a last resort. It’s an opportunity.

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.

The Future Is Fembot

What does that mean for women?

A sandy landscape made of sugar, sugar cane, and sugar cubes in front of a green background.

Sweet Hereafter

The bitter past and promising future of sugarcane.

A genderqueer person with neon hair sitting on a couch looking at their phone.

Sticky Fingers

What have we learned from a decade of sexting?

A black and white photograph of Helen Keller holding a magnolia bloom

Helen Keller Conspiracy Theories Are Awash With Ableism

We don't need better social media moderation: We need to dismantle stereotypes about disabled people.

FlytrapxBitch in yellow against a pink checkered background. Bitch repeats itself in a slow fade.

Good White People Can Be Racist, Too

Complicity can often look like delusional optimism.

A Black person with short, thick hair and prescription glasses sits at an organized workstation, using a magnification app to navigate a webpage.

To Fandom, With Love

Fanfic lets us imagine a better world together.

A fat brown-skinned and a smaller brown-skinned person, both with short curly hair, looking lovingly at each other.

The Fragility of Body Positivity

How a radical movement lost its way.