feminism

As always, Bey has outdone herself.

They’re two of the world’s most powerful and inspiring individuals, after all.

No matter how you swing it, Willow Smith won’t stay on the ground. The first song on her newest album is appropriately called “Like a Bird.” Beginning over delicately picked electric guitar, it layers her reverb-washed harmonies over an expansive bass-line. The product is heady, transcendent, and reminiscent of Kevin Abstract or maybe some of […]

In the music industry, there’s an incredibly thin line between feminist pride and sexist objectification. Cardi B has walked that line for a while.

That fleshy bit of tissue is more mythical than Sisyphus’ rock (although many men have blamed both for their feelings of deep-seated failure).

Right Now is Aziz Ansari’s reckoning with himself.

[This review contains spoilers.] Stranger Things made its name with its noirish, neon-lit aesthetic and its ability to dramatize ’80s nostalgia with the threat of impending doom. Now, in season 3, that impending doom has arrived, in two separate but interconnected forms: the Mind-Flayer has officially moved into Hawkins, and the kids have grown up. […]

We need sites that honor the wholeness of the female experience—and of the femme experience, the female-identifying experience, the trans-man and genderqueer’s experience, and even the experience of the straight white man who loves makeup and cries in his bedroom to Billie Eilish.

When women aren’t writing, producing, and playing their own instruments, when they’re singing words they don’t believe in, or when they’re feeling uncomfortable around all-male recording and production teams, how could they be making their finest work?

Filipa mocks dating game shows and delivers an anthem of self-respect.