The fedora is not Monica Lewinsky’s sex-guerrilla beret made sweet with a bow, taking no prisoners with an infantile feminine twist. Nor is it Mary Tyler Moore throwing her beret to the sky—You’re gonna make it after all. We are not sure whether we’re going to make it, in a fedora. More…
For those who missed the last The Trouble is the Banks reading at St. Mark’s Bookshop on January 23, new audio and photos of the event. Thanks to letter writer Leathea Vanadore for coming out to read on her birthday; to Dave McGee, for contributing not one but two letters to the book; and to Heather Duke, who traveled a long distance to share her incredible story. More…
Her wit was biting and aphoristic; her words sizzled on the page. With an almost anachronistic philosophical confidence she explained the world as she saw it without hesitation, from the ground up. At age 25 she wrote The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution—described by contemporaries as “the little red book for women“—and then, mystifying her admirers, withdrew from the movement and from public life. More…
Too many women find themselves isolated in their experiences of prejudice, left to whittle offenses down in their minds to nothing worth complaining about — to accept each experience as “a fluke,” in the words of one Wal-Mart supervisor in Alabama, who told deli manager Gretchen Adams that there was nothing he could do about a sexist pay discrepancy. More…
The second printing of What Was the Hipster? has arrived at the n+1 office, and to celebrate, we’re posting the book’s comprehensive index. From authenticity to bangs to Echo Park to feminism to hip-hop to leggings to media opportunism to Pabst Blue Ribbon to Ray-Bans to self-criticism to tattoos to Whiteness Studies to zombies, the hipster index has it covered. More…
