“There Is No Prejudice Here Against Women”
There are more women in executive jobs today than there were fifteen years ago, five years ago, or a year ago, and men’s reluctance to give them executive rank seems…
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Lauren O'Neal
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Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
A New Way to Read Comics
Only a small percentage of blind people commonly use Braille—and that number drops even further when it comes to reading comic books. With a new Braille-based comic book, Danish designer…
Not Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination
I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
As the last of the smoke from the 4th of July fireworks drifts away, you rub your eyes, and there in front of you, you see…the weekend Rumpus roundup. On…
From Manic Pixie Dream Girl to Stable Banshee Real Woman
“I’m fascinated by this character and what she means to people,” writes Laurie Penny about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype, “because the experience of being her—of playing her—is so…
Raise Your Glass to The Toast
Here’s a new website you’ll definitely want to add to your favorite Google Reader substitute. The Toast, started by Hairpin alums Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg, is “a daily blog…
Making Gertrude Stein and Opera Cool Again
“It would be my dream if people were just, like, rapping Gertrude Stein in New York,” says director Michelle Sutherland in the Kickstarter video for her genre-busting show Gertrude Stein SAINTS!…
Everything Is Terrible
…so here’s a video of a duck who has just received a new prosthetic foot. The duck, named Buttercup, was born with a backward-facing left foot, which was amputated and…
Tiny Screams and Other Deviations from Girl Power
The riot grrrl movement—and other “angry young women” making music around the same time—validated and celebrated female rage. But what if you feel less rage and more “negative but ultimately…
Next Time You Need to Illustrate a Blog Post…
Stock images are a strange form of art: we see them constantly, but we’re only rarely aware of them and almost never think critically about them. Subversive online lifestyle(ish) magazine…
Sofia Coppola Makes Shallowness Deep
Can a character be well rendered not in spite of her vapidity but because of it? And if so, what does that say about how the culture in which people…
Beast Crawl This Way Comes
If you live in the Bay Area, it can often seem like San Francisco hogs all the cool literary events. But East Bay denizens, take heart: Beast Crawl slowly approaches.…