Culture

"Achieving The American Dream Is Hard": How One Nonprofit Is Helping Underserved Women "Move Up"

Even the privileged struggle. But what if you’re new to the American system? Or stuck in an abusive marriage? What if you have children to support?

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Fiction Friday: Never Read The Comments

Alone in your apartment at three o’clock in the morning, you find yourself agreeing: you are a stupid bitch; you can’t write worth shit.

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The Horrible Truth About LadyGhostbusters

We all know that women really don’t have the cojones to fight ghosts or do science. Even the thought of it is funny—BUT NOT THE GOOD KIND OF FUNNY.

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Inside Glassbreakers—The Start-Up Supporting The Women Of Silicon Valley

The co-founder and CEO of the fast-growing new mentorship community speaks out on supporting women in tech: "It's hard to be what you can't see."

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6 Reasons Not To Be A Jerk About Trigger Warnings

Please buy a dictionary and look up “censorship.” The definition is not “brief note concerning the subject matter of the following text.”

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Sorry, But We Never Raised Free-Range Kids

Our frustrating, paradoxical culture simultaneously disdains helicopter parenting and rings the alarm over children left to walk alone.

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How Travel Saved My Love Life

It’s amazing that I could learn more about the flawed inner workings of my love life in a weekend than in 10 years of dating.

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Comic Heroine Ms. Marvel Fights Islamophobia On Streets Of San Francisco

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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