Entertainment - Books - Book Excerpt - News on gender, culture, and politics.

The High Costs of Dirt-Cheap Fast Fashion

It is humans who cut the fabric, and humans who work tirelessly at sewing machines. And humans can only work so fast.

Aja Barber

Save

People who say Bessie Smith would have said, “I went to see the Empress,” and everybody would have known who they…

Jackie Kay

Save

The backstory on the scandal that helped sink the French monarchy, in this excerpt from In the Shadow of the Empress

Nancy Goldstone

Save

Made with “ACTUAL RADIUM not ‘Radio-Active Water’”!

Lucy Jane Santos

Save

How a hand-embroidered seed sack tells the intergenerational story of Black women surviving in America

Tiya Miles

Save