The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism by Lindy West - Guess what? You’re a feminist
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay - If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one
The Women’s Movement by Joan Didion - The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves. The bitter fancies assumed their own logic
Lift And Separate by Ariel Levy - Why is feminism still so divisive?
What the Hell Am I (and Who the Hell Cares)? by Neko Case - Don’t Peggy Olsen me motherfuckers
No Offense by Jia Tolentino - The offense is supposed to go somewhere and do something. Of course, in practice, that’s not what happens at all
Civic Memory, Feminist Future by Lidia Yuknavitch - A personal and political history
As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes by Jenny Turner - So long as she works hard and doesn’t throw bricks or ask awkward questions, she can have as many qualifications and abortions and pairs of shoes as she likes
Feminism and Abortion by Martha Bayles - Why pro-choice arguments reflect the ambitions, hypocrisies, and contradictions of contemporary feminism
Trickle-Down Feminism by Sarah Jaffe - While we all worry about the glass ceiling, there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding
