What’s the Matter With Kansas? And Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Oregon, West Virginia, Nebraska… and more
Are you a woman? Then you already know what it feels like to walk around in an endangered body. It’s bad enough that billboards and buses and magazine adverts force us to constantly confront what feels like our inherent wrongness: that we’re even allowed to take up space is not a given. That we are […]
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In the Basement: Madonnas, Whores, and the Ariel Castro Next Door
Even though the story broke a few weeks ago, the knowledge that three young women survived kidnapping, torture, brutal rape and forced miscarriage over the course of ten terrifying years continues to shock and obsess us. Glued to our screens, we absorb the nightmarish details as they unfold. But there is something still hidden in […]