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Pink Scare

Pink Scare
Article by Avital Norman Nathman, Illustrated by JooHee Yoon, appeared in issue Red; published in 2011; filed under Social commentary.
What's behind the media panic about "princess boys"?
Red

Ever since the age of 2, when his hair first started growing in, my son Elijah has been mistaken for a girl. As he grew, so did his curls; they now frame his face and inch toward his shoulders, with every offer to trim them rebuffed. Elijah was 3 when he started painting his toenails; he had been watching me give myself pedicures, and decided that his toes needed some color as well. Now, at 4, he parades around his best friend’s house wearing her frilliest purple dress while they play detailed and intense games of “Princess.”

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Mothers of Intention

Mothers of Intention
An interview with Veronica Arreola, Shay Stewart-Bouley, Renee Martin, Arwyn Daemyir, Deesha Philyaw by Bitch Magazine, Illustrated by Jasmine Silver, appeared in issue Red; published in 2011; filed under Internet culture.
Five bloggers on race and erasure in the mommy blogosphere
Red

Several months ago, Bitch published a piece on the vexing economy of mom blogs and the contentious personalities that have come to define their corner of the Internet, for better or worse. The discussion it sparked wasn’t about whether mom blogs were, on balance, good or bad—it was about why they were so...white.

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Sealing the Deal

Sealing the Deal
Article by Jessica Jernigan, Illustrated by Beth Austin, appeared in issue Red; published in 2011; filed under Books.
The wet and wild world of selkie romance novels
Red

In 1972, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss published The Flame and the Flower. With this novel, Woodiwiss transformed the romance genre by making explicit what had previously been implied—that is, sex—and created a formula for success that romance authors would follow for decades. The archetypal romance plot of the post-Woodiwiss era goes like this: An innocent young woman experiences sexual awakening when she succumbs to an older, very powerful man, who in turn is domesticated—but not in any way emasculated!—by the aforementioned innocent young woman.

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Party Out of Bounds

Party Out of Bounds
Article by Gabrielle Moss, appeared in issue Reverb; published in 2011; filed under Music; tagged alcohol, pop music.
Booze, the Pleasure Principle, and Party-Girl Pop
Reverb

America, it would seem, is on a bender. From the shot-fueled mayhem of Jersey Shore (the most popular show in MTV’s history) to a special booze-themed episode of Glee, to the blog Texts From Last Night immortalizing those crucial missives sent while sloshed, there seems to be no way to slake our collective thirst for entertainment exploring the fun of drinking—though attempting to do so has become a popular and lucrative pursuit.

Nowhere is this quite as clear as in the music industry.

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Pork Underbelly

Article by Jessica Critcher, appeared in issue Reverb; published in 2011; filed under Internet culture; tagged eating contest, web series.

If you know your way around an Internet meme, you’ve probably heard of the online cooking show Epic Meal Time, a Food Network–meets–Jackass celebration of heart-clogging lowbrow cuisine. Each Tuesday, its rowdy Canadian creators cook up something both imaginative (Chili Four Loko, for instance), gross (meat salad), or, more likely, both (the Thanksgiving episode found them taking Turducken a few carnivorous steps further, stuffing five different game birds into a pig). The show has become understandably famous for its humor, its gratuitous use of bacon, and the creators’ proud disregard for suggested fat and cholesterol intake. (Each episode features a calorie and fat count with numbers that regularly reach the tens of thousands.) But what’s been less discussed is EMT’s more uncomfortably cavalier attitude toward women.

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"The Africa That I Know"

"The Africa That I Know"
An interview with Wanuri Kahiu by Samantha Burton, Illustrated by Kelsey Dake, appeared in issue Reverb; published in 2011; filed under Film.
A Q&A with "Pumzi" Director Wanuri Kahiu
Reverb

The setting is 35 years after World War III: The Water War. A society felled by ecological destruction has been relegated to a subterranean existence, and citizens’ movements are strictly regulated by an authoritarian government propagating a single message: “The outside is dead.” Then a young scientist named Asha discovers a sprouting seed, sparking a journey that will force her to defy her superiors and abandon the world she knows for a chance to prove that there is still life above ground.

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The Unbelievers

The Unbelievers
Article by Victoria Bekiempis, Illustrated by Ryan Brown, appeared in issue Reverb; published in 2011; filed under Social commentary.
New Atheism and the Old Boys' Club
Reverb

Women are God-fearing and don’t challenge institutions. Men, on the other hand, are skeptical and rational, and go out of their way to publicly call bullshit on faith and religion—which is why today’s well-known secular thinkers, especially in the ranks of the New Atheism movement, are all male.

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Birth of the Uncool

Birth of the Uncool
Article by SadyDoyle, Illustrated by Rebecca Green, appeared in issue Primal; published in 2011; filed under Music.
In defense of the Tori Amos fan
Primal

Illustration by Rebecca Green

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It's Hard Out Here For a Pop

It's Hard Out Here For a Pop
Article by Rachel Fudge, Illustrated by Thom Glick, appeared in issue Primal; published in 2011; filed under Internet culture.
With all the pixels expended on the annual female-blogging extravaganza known as BlogHer, you might be forgiven for having overlooked the very first Modern Media Man Summit, a heavily sponsored and branded affair held this past September in Atlanta. Targeting "the blogosphere’s top men and dad bloggers," M3 promised to "change everything"—presumably by connecting dad bloggers to new and improved products and branding opportunities from corporations like GM and T-Mobile. While some BlogHer attendees complain about the ever-increasing commercialization of the convention, the organizers of M3 are eager to get in on the brand-pitch action, cleverly positioning the newest iteration of the New Man as, well, a housewife: "Today’s Modern Media Man now is a domestic engineer. He cooks, cleans and often times stays home while the woman of the home goes off to the traditional office job. Men do an increased level of the family shopping, are taking an increasing role in rearing the children and are creating a new definition of what happens in a home."
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Pink Slip

Pink Slip
An interview with Peggy Orenstein by M. M. Adjarian, Illustrated by Rebecca Green, appeared in issue Primal; published in 2011; filed under Books.
From the outside, Peggy Orenstein epitomizes feminist success. She’s an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in such distinguished publications as the New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Discover, Mother Jones, and O: The Oprah Magazine. But her work itself is dedicated to asserting the ways in which "having it all"—or trying to—in a world built to the measure of men can have profound effects on women and girls.
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