Writers Heather Corinna and Kimberly Dark got together to discuss recent writing, menopause, body image, and more this summer while west coast resident Kimberly was in Chicago visiting her son and his family. The pandemic made it difficult for them to host a public event, so they decided to share their conversation with Reader readers. […]
Tag: feminism
Posted inMusic
Sleater-Kinney explore new sonic directions, but their core remains the same on The Center Won’t Hold
If you were a young American feminist in the late 90s or early 00s with a penchant for punk and indie rock, there’s a good chance you grew up listening to Sleater-Kinney. Formed by guitarist-vocalists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein in 1994 and completed by longtime drummer Janet Weiss in 1996, the group spent their […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic
The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lit recs for the reader exhausted by the weight of history
The current book obsessions of Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt and essayist and Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck.
Posted inBlogs
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival about witches
Kristen Sollée explained our current witchy moment, with detours into mythology, theology, and Bewitched.
Posted inArts & Culture
Julie Doucet is done making comics
But the comics world is definitely not done talking about her.
Posted inBlogs
What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women’s anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon
Posted inArts & Culture
Jill Soloway wants you to stop arguing with people online
The Transparent creator comes home to Chicago to demonstrate how to do it in person.
Posted inBlogs
Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018
At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.
Posted inBlogs
Everyone’s a sucker at a new kind of traveling circus—the Instagram trap
At Happy Place, 29Rooms, and a new wave of pop-up museums you can pay $30+ for great Instagrams—and not much else.
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Alicia Swiz wants to make you a better feminist—by taking her online course
“I’ve always been a huge advocate of people becoming more critical thinkers of media.”
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
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The time Reader writer Kiki Yablon dismantled the logic of the Wall Street Journal
And, in the process, delivered an important lesson about journalism and how to do it.
Posted inNews & Politics
These teenage girls are leading an exodus from rape culture this Passover
Their new feminist Haggadah shows the way to a promised land of gender equality.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Why does a straight cis woman get off on lesbian, gay, trans, and even violent porn?
“Dansplaining” sexual kinks, and more