We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Provided with a feminist praxis of individual advancement and satisfaction—two concepts that easily blur into self-promotion and self-indulgence—women happily bit. A politics built around getting and spending money is sexier than a politics built around politics.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
In our latest cultural newsletter dispatch, @emmaggarland unpicks the wild journey that @charli_xcx’s album of the summer ’Brat’ embarked on, as the dangers of the social media discourse’s rapid speed is becoming increasingly clear.
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instagram.comI felt as if a feminist praxis was turning to acid and eating through the floor. It’s as if what’s signified—sexism itself—has remained so intractable that we’ve mostly given up on rooting out its actual workings. Instead, to the great benefit of people like Ivanka, we’ve been adjudicating inequality through cultural criticism. We have taught
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