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The Missing Voices in the Epstein Files' Media Commentary: Sexual Assault Prevention Educators
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (1037+ words) This analysis was originally published on'In the Arena With Jackson Katz. The Epstein files scandal has all the elements of a gigantic media spectacle. It encompasses everything from true crime to political intrigue, and offers a peak behind closed doors…...
Community Networks Sharing Free Abortion Pills Expand to States Where Abortion Is Legal but Out of Reach
17+ hour, 39+ min ago (994+ words) Every package we send out is a bullet fired at the patriarchy." In response to abortion bans and restrictions, feminists across the country have created networks of community groups that share abortion pills by mail, free of charge, with people…...
Sundance 2026: Olive Nwosu’s Haunting Lagos-Set Drama ‘LADY’ Asks What Happens When You Can No Longer Tune Out the World
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (361+ words) This is one in a series of'film reviews from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, focused on films by women, trans or nonbinary directors that tell compelling stories about the lives of women and girls. The opening imagery of LADY, a haunting…...
The Intensity and Perfectionism That Drive Olympic Athletes Also Put Them at High Risk for Eating Disorders
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (565+ words) Olympians'athletes at the top of their sport and in prime health'are idolized and often viewed as superhuman. These athletes spend their lives focusing on building physical strength through rigorous training and diets that are honed to provide the nutrients necessary…...
Lindsey Vonn Redefines The Limits of Possibility
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (704+ words) If there is anyone who could attempt a comeback that improbable, it is Vonn. As the most decorated female alpine skier in history at the time of her retirement, she amassed 82 World Cup victories, along with three Olympic medals and…...
Josh and Erin Hawley’s 'Love Life Initiative' Signals the Next Phase of the Antiabortion Fight
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (886+ words) Antiabortion power couple Erin and Josh Hawley announced in December the launch of a new dark money antiabortion group: the Love Life Initiative. Erin Hawley is senior counsel at the far-right Christian legal advocacy Alliance Defending Freedom and member of…...
‘A Deliberate Attempt to Terrorize’: Former FBI Agent Asha Rangappa on What Real Law Enforcement Looks Like—and What ICE Is Not
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1791+ words) This piece is part of an ongoing series, "Redefining Power: How Indian American Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Leadership, Identity and Care." The series explores what it means to modernize without losing our roots'through candid conversations with Indian American…...
The Strange Hopefulness of Growing a Human While the World Burns
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (817+ words) This story was originally published by The Conversationalist, an independent nonprofit and global feminist publication. I've been promising, and failing, since before the 2024 U.S. election to write about the world on fire, and the arsonists fanning the flames. The essay I'd…...
Who’s American? Whose America? Bad Bunny’s Radical Halftime Message
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (623+ words) Not surprisingly, their gyrating bodies'taking up more space than is ever allowed for national televised spectacles in these United States'have already prompted some pearl-clutching debates over "decency." Through the veneer of joy, community and the bold statement that "more powerful…...
A Letter to My Future Self in a Time of Undoing
1+ week, 2+ day ago (767+ words) Menopause'and the conversations surrounding it'is having a moment: Celebrities are speaking out, a commercial marketplace is booming, and state legislatures have introduced a wave of reforms over the past year. But as public attention grows, so too must our scrutiny…...