Two years into the Trump administration, there is no mistaking what Republicans stand for: xenophobia, racism, and misogyny. And, it’s clear from Tuesday’s election, that white women largely continue to embrace that platform and vote to hand Republicans more power to accomplish those ends. White women know very well…
Republicans know what Democrats are still trying to deny: suburban white women are a loyal part of their base. On Monday, in an ad created in a lab by fusing Ivanka Trump’s International Women’s Day e-cards with a copy of Lean In and decades of redlining, Donald Trump’s campaign team urges white suburban women to vote…
Relying on white suburban women using the midterms as a referendum on Republican excess is a loser’s bet. This seems obvious to anyone who paid attention to the 2016 election (or the last six decades of electoral history), but it’s also what comes across in this Politico piece delving into a contentious house race in…
A day after the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senator Susan Collins and Kellyanne Conway doubled down on their terrible opinions, and in defending themselves, further established that Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Ford and her most skeptical supporters were right: Her pain, in the end, …
On Friday, Senator Susan Collins, in a 43-minute speech, announced she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “He has been an exemplary public servant, judge, teacher, coach, husband, and father,” she said.
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, a young white mother near Wilmington, North Carolina, received the news with resolve to circumvent the ruling, using “nerve and plenty of hell in the personality.” Mrs. Hugh Bell organized the Pender County Association for the…
In a rousing speech at the Women’s March #PowertothePolls rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards implored her comrades—white women—to “do better.”
This time last year millions of angry and impassioned women across the country were preparing to march—in Washington, D.C. and beyond—for women’s rights and in protest of the newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. Others (even those who supported the cause, generally speaking) were declining to participate after…
The cover of Thursday’s edition of Los Angeles Times magazine The Envelope delivered six white actresses with the tagline “A Shift in Focus: Actresses call for change in the way many stories are told.” Reeeeealllly?? Really.
On Tuesday evening, 63 percent of white women voted for Roy Moore, a man accused of assaulting multiple teenage girls, and cruising for more—so aggressively that he was thought to have been banned from the Gadsen Mall. I’ll say it again: 63 percent of white women voted for the guy who was probably banned from a…
Accused pedophile and definite bigot and horse-ruiner Roy Moore will not advance to an Alabama Senate seat, because the Democratic candidate Doug Jones won the Alabama Special Election by a small but mighty margin!
On Monday evening, protesters in Durham, North Carolina pulled down a Confederate monument that had stood in front of the old Durham County courthouse since its dedication on May 10, 1924. As one of the protesters climbed a ladder and put a rope around the sculpture, the rest chanted, “We are the revolution.” In an…
Ladies, how was your weekend? Did you hear what happened in Charlottesville? Did you start your morning yesterday with a few tweets about how white supremacy is also really bad for white women? Did you look absolutely stunning in your guest spot on MSNBC where you talked about the alt-right? Did you spend Sunday…
Are you a white woman who did not vote for Donald Trump? Have you been searching for a way to assuage the guilt you may feel after learning white women were largely responsible for sending us all to Boy-Are-We-Fuckedville? Do you have zero self-awareness? Then get those credit cards out bitches!!!!
Previous studies have established a steep decline in the life expectancy of white women without a high school diploma. New research indicates that along with smoking, being unemployed is "strongly associated with higher death rates."
I'd like to take this moment to thank Men's Rights Activists for filling my cold black heart with delirious glee every time they come up with a new dumb idea. The newest one? White dudes, tired of the uppity bitchiness of western women, should marry a smiling, submissive brown lady, like the kind that wear banana…
Modern hetero relationships appear to be in a period of flux. This is potentially interesting — so why does the conversation about it feel so circular?
Good and bad breast cancer news. The bad: a recent survey of black and white women who have had surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer found that black women were less likely than white women to receive the crucial follow-up radiation treatment. The survey joins a long line of studies that show that U.S. blacks…
The notoriously aggressive British tabloid press has been obsessed with the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeline McCann since she vanished from her family's hotel room at a Portuguese resort this past May. The majority of the the scrutiny, as Broadsheet pointed out this morning, has fallen on Maddy's mother, Dr. Kate…
