Feminist AF, the newest title from the Crunk Feminist Collective, is a fierce and intelligent guidebook for young adulthood that meets the reader at her level. Invoking the energy of hip-hop generation feminism, the authors spell out a crystal-clear conversational index as a toolbox for their readers to set out with.
Author: Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier writes about the intersections of gender and media, which is the focus of her current studies at MIT. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear at BUST, Bitch, Origins, and elsewhere.
Decoding Sex in the Humanities: Five Key Findings from MIT’s Gender/Novels Project
In an intense two-month sprint, the DH Lab at MIT hit the ground running with the Gender/Novels project. Their mission? To teach a program to deliver meaningful data about gender from a truly colossal number of books on a sentence-by-sentence level of detail—and to establish their new lab as a force on campus. This is what they learned.
Let Us Now Praise Brutal Women
Suddenly, massive blockbusters resolve around the power of a woman’s body, to a greater degree than its sexualization. These brutal women are the wickedly, unapologetically powerful characters redrawing the genres that so long excluded them—and doing so not as novelties, but as icons.
Daisies in the Age of Trump
The two Maries seem precisely the opposite of all the fear and worry that I’d felt in the Women’s March.