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Life Stories: An Interview With Janet Mock
Author Janet Mock talks being a woman, battling against media sound bites, and her new memoir, Redefining Realness . Via janetmock.com On the Life Stories podcast (available on iTunes), memoir writers...
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We Don't Have To Thank The Academy
The increasing diversity of the Oscar winners doesn’t validate its stagnant body of voters. Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Every year the group most responsible for the Academy Awards remains conspicuously...
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Alice Is In Arabia, And The Rest Of Us Hold Our Breath
It’s hard to be optimistic about a premise so exhausting. It must be nice to be able to watch television and movies and regularly have "me too" moments — to be allowed identification in the culture...
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Los Librotraficantes Fight To Smuggle Books Into Schools
Tony Diaz, the man behind the Librotraficante (or “book trafficker”) Movement, talks about smuggling banned books into Arizona and fighting to keep Chicano literature in American schools. Tony Diaz El...
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Teaching The Camera To See My Skin
Navigating photography’s inherited bias against dark skin. John Gara for BuzzFeed I was 12 years old and paging through a photo album; my memories of the days seemed to fade in the photo's recreation....
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To Body Mod Away From Brownness And Back
Learning to be brown and bearded in Brooklyn. Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed I grew up in a small Texas city, where my white peers called me a monkey. They told me that Indians grow our body hair earlier...
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Talking To My Mother About Our Bulimia
The conversation around eating disorders often centers on young girls. As adults still coping with bulimia, for the first time my mom and I talk about our progress, pasts, and enduring anxieties....
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Why Black Women In America Are Being Told To Find Love In Europe
“Swirl.” Illustration by Brittany Holloway-Brown for BuzzFeed At first glance, Black Girl Travel seems to be like any other American international travel club, just one that caters exclusively to...
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USA Network Is Television's Best Answer To The Shifting Social Order
AMC’s celebrated dramas reflect anxieties of modernity, but Psych , Burn Notice , and White Collar offer resilience strategies for the same circumstances. AMC / USA If you looked at the critical...
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Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing
“The publishing industry looks a lot like these best-selling teenage dystopias: white and full of people destroying each other to survive.” Julie Dillon / BuzzFeed "Cuando el EZLN logre lo que busca,...
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College Campuses Are Treating Rape Like A Crime Without Criminals
As campus assault remains a problem, school administrations focus on “safe spaces” and image instead. BuzzFeed Lena Sclove transferred to Brown University in January 2013 in hopes that the famously...
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How Censors Killed The Weird, Experimental, Progressive Golden Age Of Comics
Charles 'Teenie' Harris / Carnegie Museum of Art / Getty Images Comics histories sometimes reduce the Golden Age to the Superman Age: an era of lily white, squeaky-clean, manly-man heroes punching...
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You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Self-help for the “working woman” isn’t helping. Justine Zwiebel for BuzzFeed Ideas Judging by the "self-help" offered to working women, we are, as a category, case studies in failure. The history of...
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York's Hottest Tourist Attraction
STAN HONDA / AFP / Getty Images During the noisy, chaotic third week of September 2001, my father wrote letters to the New York Times and the Post, and was published in both, asking simply that the...
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A Story For R. Kelly's Defenders
Little black girls are taught when and how to be silent before anyone ever tells us we have the right to say no. Ashley Ford on her 7th birthday. One week before my 7th birthday, I stayed up all night...
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Not Here to Make Friends
On the importance of unlikable female protagonists. Via covers.openlibrary.org "My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women." —Marguerite Duras, The Lover In my high...
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Here's What Happens When "Beauty" Becomes "Duty"
Inside World War II’s female beauty campaign. The following excerpt was originally published in The WORN Archive, which compiles some of the best material from WORN Fashion Journal's first 14 issues....
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Making Sense Of Suicide With Sylvia Plath
Katie Crouch, author of Abroad , on surviving the first tech boom in San Francisco and the importance of Sylvia Plath. Editor's Note: A slightly different version of this essay by author Katie Crouch...
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Hercules Has Gotten Way More Relatable — And Less Queer — In The Past 2,700...
Mainstream contemporary culture isn’t into the idea of a masculine hero being a cold-blooded murderer or having a young male lover. Weird, right? Paramount Pictures The new Hercules apparently wants...
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A Need To Disappear
Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing , on how writers both are and are not their characters. Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed The reporter asked me if I'd ever been clinically depressed. We...
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