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Author: Tess Rafferty

Tess Rafferty is a writer, comedian and performer. Most recently, she developed Halfway House, an original half hour pilot at WBTV. Her original pilot, I Know Who You Really Are, Bitch, made the WeForShe 2017 WriteHer list. Tess has written for numerous shows, including @MIDNIGHT on Comedy Central and The Soup, and she currently produces and appears in the live comedy show, RESISTANCE AFTER DARK. As an author, Tess made her debut with her memoir Recipes for Disaster, published by St. Martin’s Press in 2012 and has written her first novel, Under the Tuscan Gun, currently under option with WBTV. You can read more at  or follow her @TessRafferty.
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Invisibility Isn’t a Super Power—It’s Time for Visible Woman to Take Over

Tess Rafferty

Honestly, I don’t care to see another thing about Invisible Woman. I am tired of being erased. Instead, I want to see Visible Woman. (“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—oh, christ, who invited Beth?”)

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The C-Word You Should Never Call a Woman

Tess Rafferty

If it makes you a “C-word” to stand up for yourself, to work hard, to speak truth to power, to not let a man take advantage of your body, to fight for the rights of marginalized voices—then yes, vagina, I am a cunt!

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Rest in Power: Margot Kidder Was the Superhero

Tess Rafferty

On Sunday, the world lost Margot Kidder, a much-loved actress known to many for her portrayal of “Lois Lane” in the 1978 Superman and its sequel.

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Speaking Truth to Power is Women’s Work

Tess Rafferty

None of the hullabaloo was actually about Michelle Wolf or her White House Correspondent’s Dinner monologue. It was about a tale as old of time—one of the persistent gaslighting of women who speak truth to power.

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