Maggie Mertens+

Survival as a Writer Today is Not a Solo Project

Announcing: The New Scratch

Actually, The Winter Olympics Are My Superbowl

I truly don't care that the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, but I care very much about women's figure skating

Some Thoughts About My Favorite Book of the Year — and Body Hair

A twist on a year-end wrap list, and some other recs

The State of "The Media" is Bad. What's an Independent Journalist to Do?

Some things you should know about Bari Weiss and "The Free Press"

Of Softball and Fascism

You can read my latest story at Defector now

What Feminism Can Teach Us About Animals, and Animals Can Teach Us About Feminism

I chat with the authors of FEMINISM IN THE WILD Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer

What Did Faith Kipyegon's "Moonshot" Say About Gender?

I had some thoughts about the Faith (and Nike's) Breaking4 Event

Raising My Sons as WNBA Fans is An Act of Resistance

Plus, where I'll be the next couple weeks!

Pope Francis and The Patriarchy

The Pope, JD Vance, and Systems of Hierarchy

What is a Woman Anyway? And Why is Sports So Obsessed With this Question?

I chat with Rose Eveleth of TESTED about new exclusionary World Athletics proposed rules

Seeking Creation at the End of the World

Bringing almond blossoms inside to bloom

"Capitalism Doesn't Actually Work" The Story of the Feminist Labor Fight That's About a Lot More Than Housework, Actually

I interview Emily Callaci, author of "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor"

Doubling Down on Creation During Destruction

Re-Investing in this newsletter, and each other

Sports Was Just the Beginning, As We've Been Telling You

How did we get here? Oh, Don't Worry I Brought Receipts

When The President Attacks Gender, Itself

Reading Judith Butler when it seems everyone, actually, is "Afraid of Gender"

A Feminist Archivist Explains How Data from the Past Shapes the Feminist Future

Ask an Academic is back, with Marika Cifor of University of Washington

BEING A WOMAN DOESN’T MAKE YOU A FEMINIST

A reminder of what feminism is and who it is for and how we'll need it to fight our fascist future

Don't Ever Call Me a #BoyMom, but BOYMOM is a Revelatory Book

Nomination for Entry Into The Feminist Canon No. 3 "Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity" by Ruth Whippman

Sorry for the Slow Response: I'm Busy Being Perceived by Our Increasingly Fractured World and Thinking Existentially.

On women's multifaceted identities, the feminist concept of "selfcraft" and "public" vs "private" spheres in the age of social media

Book Siblings for Summer

Because I'm tired of self-promotion, and as bell hooks reminds me, it's about the ideas