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Opinion

Women of color are not puzzled by the Atlanta killer’s motivation

Rebecca Young, Niki Solis and Jane Brown - April 1, 2021

Racism? Misogyny? Easy access to guns? It’s not one or the other. It’s all of the above.

Movies

A trailblazing lesbian hero’s story, finally coming to film

Marke B. - April 1, 2021

Sally Gearhart's incredible, multifaceted life—lesbian separatist, gay lib icon, sci-fi author—gets a doc.

News + Politics

The continual violence faced by Asian communities and women of color

Haemin Cho - March 21, 2021

There are so many things wrong with this murder spree, the bizarrely apologetic reaction of the sheriffs, and the ensuing media narratives about this hate crime.

Music

Unsung women of music? Not if this online course has a say

Caitlin Donohue - February 16, 2021

Mark Montgomery French offers a sneak peek of his essential class on the musical greats the industry tends to forget

Elections

Why did so many people vote for Trump?

Tim Redmond - November 7, 2020

Radical economic inequality causes social breakdown. We're seeing it right now.

Culture

Author of ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’ Wendy Liu says tech must change

Emily Wilson - October 20, 2020

"There’s this extreme power discrepancy that’s being magnified by Silicon Valley in ways that are not necessarily new, but they’ve improved upon the ways it already existed."

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Visions of liberation that don’t quite live up to legends

Dennis Harvey - September 28, 2020

'The Glorias' and 'I Am Woman' let subjects down, 'Native Son' gets noir revival, 'Sign of the Cross' goes over the top.

News + Politics

RIP, the Notorious RBG

Rebecca Young - September 21, 2020

How one woman, one petite woman with a mighty intellect and a grit true to her Brooklyn roots, became not just a role model, but a revered symbol of the struggle for women’s equality.

Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

Joanna Ladd - July 15, 2020

Pianist and composer Holly Mead picked the title Solitary Animals for her fourth album months before COVID-19 spun us all into cocoons of solitude....

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

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