Damn Phylicia Rashad: What the Cosby Scandal Has Taught Us About Rape Culture and the Remnants of the Cosby Legacy | Kayla Dawes

Nightly television for a good portion of my childhood included re-runs of The Cosby Show. It is, no doubt, one…

Medea Deconstructed | Lillian Ann Slugocki

Out of all the women in the world, including Lilith, I am considered the worst. It’s embedded in the canon, from the dark age to the modern age. I am a mad, crazy, murderous woman.

THEMED ISSUE: UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE STORIES

In honor of the all-too-stereotypical, white, money-driven and heteronormative thing…

The Short Goodbye | Cath Bore

I want to say goodbye properly and in my own way but the chance is stolen from me, his eyes dimming to opaque glass the millisecond mine choose to blink. I feel cheated as my eyelids open back up while his lips slack apart in a final sour gasp. His bowels void silently, the…

Chivaree | Ilona Martonfi

Back when we married pregnant,
a chivaree for us that night

effigy draped with a white shirt
a carnivalesque mob

Featured Writers Section: Coming Soon to a Fem Near You

As The Fem expands, we want to recognize fantastic writers whether their work has appeared in our magazine or not. To accomplish this, we’re putting together a Featured Writers section in which we will post interviews with some…