The Ant and the Grasshopper Can Coexist
Of course, it’s not only parents who teach us about gender roles. Sometimes it feels like we’re absorbing them with our first gasps from the womb.
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The Best Longreads by Women in 2015
In an effort to combat the gender byline gap in media, Autostraddle compiled a list of the 215 best longreads from 2015, all written by women. Included on the list…
Unique Pageviews Don’t Pay Your Web Hosting Bill
Wil Wheaton created quite a fuss last month with an essay about Huffington Post’s request to republish an essay from his blog sans payment. When we called attention to a Salon…
Who Hunts the Witch Hunters?
Rachel Kincaid writes for Autostraddle on the twisted power dynamics inherent in witch trials, both in history and fiction, in the past and in the present day: But what rings…
“The Delusion That Women Couldn’t Hurt Me”
Our rock-star essays editor Roxane Gay kills it again, this time with an essay at Autostraddle about the women she’s loved and how her queerness shaped her life. Here’s a little…
DC Comics’ First Transgender Character
DC Comics’ “New 52” gambit, in which they scrapped all their series’ storylines and replaced them with new ones, did away with many of the characters that kept the DC…