The pandemic has revealed how tired women are from work and housework. Did the gains from second-wave feminism deliver liberation or overworked and underpaid women? — In her 2016 Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, Ali Wong performed her set while looking very pregnant onstage. This was the first time I heard anti-work rhetoric, and it was framed in opposition to feminism. Wearing a dress, flats, and her unborn child in her belly, Wong joked that feminists…

What does it mean when the propaganda of patriarchy is being made and spread by women themselves? — A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the unrelenting misinformation campaign being deployed across social media on behalf of Johnny Depp. In that piece, I focused on the co-optation of #MeToo strategies and the re-appropriation of gender-based violence language to argue that Depp is the real victim of the…

Heartstopper’s Nick Nelson reminded me of why I love being bisexual. Here’s a short reflection on my sexuality. — After kissing his best friend, Nick Nelson did what every queer kid would do when asking questioning their sexuality: he Googled “am I gay?” …

What happens when the #MeToo movement challenges the image of a beloved actor? — When I first watched Johnny Depp onscreen, I fell in love with him. Granted, I was around 14 years old, and didn’t know much about the world of relationships and romance. I hadn’t even been kissed before. Despite this, I had an intense celebrity crush on Depp for years, especially…

Starring: your teenage celebrity crush and the woman he decided to publicly destroy. — Johnny Depp was my first ever teenage celebrity crush. I used to have a Jack Sparrow poster and a box full of magazine cut-outs of photos that I would look at when I missed him. …

The demise of Bitch Media begs key questions about institutionalized feminist work. — When I first discovered feminism, I thought I had finally found my life’s purpose. Perhaps is was a naïve perception of the movement I was learning about, but I was still in my early 20s, and I was looking for a purpose. …

As Bitch Media shuts down, generations of feminists ask: where will feminist cultural criticism go? — When I first watched Anitta’s “Vai Malandra” video, I desperately wanted to write about it, but I found it difficult to find anywhere to publish me. The video was controversial in Brazil at the time: was Anitta reproducing a hypersexualized stereotype of the Brazilian woman? Was she appropriating blackness that…

More actors should bet on bad British accents. It brings British people down a peg, and that’s never a bad thing. — Internet’s boyfriend Oscar Isaac starred in a new Disney+ show last week and we (and by we, I mean people who are attracted to men) are all very excited to see more of Isaac’s face on our TV screens. Moon Knight is a dark and gritty story about a man’s…