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Culture How HBCU Majorettes Shaped My Idea of Black Womanhood
“Half time is game time.”
Culture Rachel on Rachel
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams interview each other about their new movie Disobedience, how sex scenes with women are different from sex scenes with men, and how they connect to the characters they play.
Culture Claudia Schreier: Ballet Beyond the Mold
The nontraditional choreographer is expanding our ideas of what classical ballet can be.
Health When Doctors Dismiss Women’s Pain
Women stop trusting the medical system. Here’s how to get them to start again.
Culture How Swedish Musician Jenny Wilson Reclaimed Her Fighting Spirit
“I’ve always used my life as the only tool I’ve got to express things and make art.”
Life I Love My Natural Hair. So Why Do I Unconsciously Pick It Out?
On my inexplicable habit of hair picking.
Life On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
An excerpt from And Now We Have Everything.
Life She Kept Her Pistol in Her Bosom
On women and guns.
Culture Why I Turn to The Mary Tyler Moore Show When Life Gets Me Down
The fictional Minneapolis career woman and her friends are the perfect cure-all.
Politics Fiction: "Daughter First: Big Jim’s Game"
Who will win, the father or the son-in-law? Depends on who plays dirtiest.
Culture Teaching Shakespeare to Refugees
When art becomes more vital.
Culture Lucy Dacus on the Welcomed Emptiness of Touring
"The monotony is meditative."
Health PCOS. POC. Poetry. & Pilates.
My body’s alarm was going off, and I had to learn to listen to it.
Life Breaking Up With Retail Therapy
An excerpt from The Year of Less.
