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Sinead O’Connor Was Right: It’s Time to Revisit Some of Pop Culture’s Most Maligned Women
1+ week, 2+ day ago (663+ words) An excerpt from Allison T. Butler's The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture (The Censored Press), published March 8, 2026. In 1991, Sinead O'Connor announced that she would refuse any awards bestowed by MTV because the channel ignored…...
Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny
1+ week, 5+ day ago (682+ words) On March 11, Netflix released Inside the Manosphere, a new documentary by Louis Theroux that hit the No. 1 spot on Netflix. It is an uncomfortable but necessary examination of how the manoverse'a loose conglomeration of men's rights and red pill influencers,…...
The Academy Is Far From Golden: Feminist Wins and Snubs at the 2026 Oscars
2+ week, 3+ day ago (582+ words) There were a few triumphant moments for women at the 98th Academy Awards. The standout was Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography. As a woman of Filipino and Black Creole…...
Dana Elle Murphy, Author at Ms. Magazine
2+ week, 3+ day ago (225+ words) More than her own failings, perhaps there are times when new nations are just not ready to be called into being. Although Phillis Wheatley (Peters) is widely known as the first African woman to publish a book of poetry in…...
Reclaiming Phillis Wheatley (Peters): Imagination as a Feminist Founding Project
2+ week, 4+ day ago (912+ words) More than her own failings, perhaps there are times when new nations are just not ready to be called into being." Kamala Harris clearly received this message. The first woman vice president of the United States from 2021-2025 and Democratic presidential…...
Sundance 2026: 'Run Amok' Uses a High School Musical to Confront the Afterlife of School Violence and the Messy Work of Grief
3+ week, 7+ min ago (193+ words) This is one in a series of'film reviews from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, focused on films by women, trans or nonbinary directors that tell compelling stories about the lives of women and girls. Rather than dwell in darkness, however, Run…...
'The Bride!' Speaks Back: Rage and Autonomy in Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (1004+ words) This review contains spoilers for The Bride!, as well as Poor Things, Ex Machina and HBO's Westworld series. Women are often stereotyped as overly talkative'gossiping, "blabbing' or labeled "chatty Cathys.' Archie Bunker in the television series All in the Family'often…...
Missiles, Memes and Masculinity: When the White House Turns War Into Entertainment
3+ week, 2+ day ago (413+ words) The White House video followed a familiar, cynical formula: a heroic movie quote, a dramatic cut to real explosions and video game victory sounds. In this administration's hands, war has become clickable content. Criticism of the videos persists for their…...
Oscar-Nominated Documentary 'The Devil Is Busy' Shows What It Takes to Keep an Abortion Clinic Safe
3+ week, 4+ day ago (769+ words) Originally published in The Contrarian as "A Day on the Front Line of America's Abortion War." Tracii's day begins early'before dawn. She arrives at work, turns on the lights and thoroughly searches the building for intruders. Then she checks outside,…...
Sundance 2026: ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ Is an Empathetic, Slice-of-Life Portrait of One Teenage Girl's Summer
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (297+ words) This is one in a series of'film reviews from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, focused on films by women, trans or nonbinary directors that tell compelling stories about the lives of women and girls. For adults who've conveniently blocked out memories…...