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The City Was a Woman Too

What does it mean to travel as a woman in a world built by ...

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No, Military Service for Women isn’t Equality

Military conscription seems increasingly likely in Germany. Some even suggest including women-for equality's sake, ...

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Learning to be beautiful, learning to be brown

A personal recollection of how beauty ideals, colourism, and migration shape self-image: What does ...

Are Period-Tracking Apps Failing Their Users?

This article explores how period-tracking apps often reinforce gender stereotypes, mishandle intimate data, and ...

Learning to Love Myself as a Woman

I, like many women, am no stranger to the difficulties and dangers women face: ...

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Staging a Prison Break

Femininity in men is often seen as both lesser than masculinity and as predatory ...

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The Coin on the Floor

A short story about first experience, coercion, and the illusion of choice - a ...

Cobra Clutch

I had felt nauseous for days, unable to bring myself to eat. Then one ...

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Lily Kensington: Diva as Dialectic

“I no longer believe in authenticity. I believe in staging.” In the city, performance ...

So Many Boxes, So Little Shelf Space

So Many Boxes, So Little Shelf Space

In this warm, reflective essay, the author unpacks more than furniture in her new ...

București: the city of memories (Hometown edition)

Concrete. Parks during glorious sunsets. Communist buildings. Covrigi (Romanian pretzels) with poppy seeds clinging ...

Peja, The Dragonhearted (Hometown edition)

I usually get very excited when talking about my hometown, Peja. Depending on who’s ...