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Introducing 'Dire Straights': a feminist podcast about heterosexuality
Because we're not OK.
Jun 10
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The secret no one tells you about divorce
It's about time.
May 29
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The rise and fall of feminist media
In defense of structural analysis with verve
May 22
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Amanda Montei
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Pronatalism as empire-building
Meet the couple who wants women to sacrifice their lives for an anti-woke imperialist agenda
May 13
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Libido is a myth
Women's lack of desire is not pathological. It’s political.
Apr 17
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Amanda Montei
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It’s not the economy. It’s the misogyny.
Nov 6, 2024
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Amanda Montei
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The banality of white male rage
Feb 14, 2024
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The desire for a ‘normal’ sex life
Jan 8
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The banality of white male rage, again
Sep 11, 2024
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"Desire disorders" are the new hysteria
Why are we still doing this?
May 1
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Amanda Montei
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Women tell their 'libido' stories
Including the 🌶️ NSFW ones—and my own
Apr 23
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Amanda Montei
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Feminism is not to blame for the gender divide, men who don’t read are
This is an essay about why men need to start reading books by women
Mar 12
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Amanda Montei
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Girl, stop apologizing
Divorce is not a tragedy
Feb 26
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The desire for a ‘normal’ sex life
In Babygirl, the age-gap affair faces off with the impossible sexuality of motherhood and marriage
Jan 8
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"What if every woman who could afford to say 'no' when she feels 'no' simply did?"
An interview with Kate Hamilton, author of the memoir Mad Wife
Jan 30
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Amanda Montei
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"What if every woman who could afford to say 'no' when she feels 'no' simply did?"
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The postpartum trauma plot
Bad/sad moms gone wild
Jan 15
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Amanda Montei
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Irreconcilable differences
On no-fault divorce and reckoning with state-level freedoms
Dec 5, 2024
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Trans panic is projection
Gender policing makes no one safer
Nov 26, 2024
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Amanda Montei
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