Over the past three weeks, Turkey has launched a series of cross-border artillery bombardments against the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the foremost fighting-force...
Writer, poet, performer, and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s published work—including the memoir Dirty River and poetry collections Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide—has...
Mass shootings are becoming a chilling and common subject in the American news. More chilling still is the realization that the number of widely reported mass shootings pales in comparison to the...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss our most popular post last week…E. Young on the representation of fat women and femmes in romantic...
When Dominic Raab took up his position as Brexit Secretary, following David Davis’s sulky resignation, I thought he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than his predecessor who seemed to have...
Hi, fat black person here. So… Rebel Wilson blew up in a pretty bad way last week, eh? Let’s be honest: white folks not acknowledging the work of people of color and claiming all the credit for...
You may have heard about a little scandal involving a Nebraska politician, a Facebook like, and the ensuing harassment by the politician’s chief of staff against the professor behind the Facebook...
The blue wave is coming for you, threaten Democrats, and exhortations to vote are all over social media. You can't open Twitter without seeing a user name changed to "VOTE NOVEMBER 6" or "REGISTER TO...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss our most popular post last week…Tala Woods' superb interview with feminist Instagrammer Annie Wade...
We live in a world where sexual violence is trivialised, and even though #MeToo and similar campaigns are being heard more than ever before, rape and sexual abuse are still laughed at far too often....
