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So you want your child to strive for the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes? Crack open some feminist books for kids. You can’t be what you can’t see (or read, or discuss, or understand). Most of the media that kids are exposed to—TV, movies, iPad games—isn’t designed to teach, for example, the…
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The sixth Democratic debate held in December 2019 wasn’t quite filled with surprises, but it did have a few good zingers—one of which was delivered to us by none other than Andrew Yang, the sole person of color in attendance and perhaps the unlikeliest candidate on stage. (He just missed the cutoff for tonight’s debate…
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I arrive 15 minutes early to the Upper West Side restaurant where I am supposed to meet Susan Isaacs to talk about her new novel, Takes One To Know One. This only because I had spent the previous half hour loitering at a nearby coffee shop, uncharacteristically nervous. Biting my nails nervous. Extra shot of…
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I’ve always felt feminism to be like a block party: euphoric, emancipating, jubilant, and open to all. I often fear that many women in my generation think about it instead like a speakeasy: closed, password-protected, and open to the already enlightened. The narrowing of feminism has presented itself in subtle and not so subtle ways.…
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My Outlander habit started because it looked like something my husband and I would be able to watch together. I like historical fiction, he’s got a thing for kilts and bagpipes (and can trace his own ancestry to the Cameron clan); so when a coworker described it to me about three episodes after the premiere,…
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On the surface, HBO’s new limited series Sharp Objects has all of the trappings of last summer’s massive hit Big Little Lies. Like BLL, Sharp Objects is an adaptation of a blockbuster novel (this time by Gone Girl‘s Gillian Flynn). It also brings a buzzy A-list actress, Amy Adams, to television after a string of…
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