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Medusa: Unpacking the Misogyny in Our Mythology

Medusa: Unpacking the Misogyny in Our Mythology

Medusa: Unpacking the Misogyny in Our Mythology © Image by James Holko Essay by Cara Sergio This painting might just be my favorite rendering of Medusa. Everybody knows the story of Medusa, right? Well, for those of you who don’t remember your Greek mythology, Medusa was a devotee of the

Skinny Privilege

Skinny Privilege

Skinny Privilege © I’ve struggled with my weight for much of my life. I wasn’t heavy as a young child, but I started binge eating as a tween, which caused my mother to start policing my body, to ask “Are you going to eat that” every time I bit

Spectrum Cable & Internet is Anti-Woman

Spectrum Cable & Internet is Anti-Woman © I had to call my internet provider (Spectrum) because the WiFi was down this morning. The first person I spoke to, in their department of “customer service” informed me that it looked like everything was connected on their end, and gave me the bum’s

Challenging the Linguistic Capture of Synthetic Sex Ideology, One Memoir at a Time

From Ute Heggen, ex-wife of a man who . . .(yes, the whole nine yards) and author of In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse.com/bookstore, amazon/kindle first chapter free) This article is adapted from a blog post at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com When I found the

All I Want For My Birthday is Your Donation to Planned Parenthood

(Written on 6/30/22, the night before my 45th birthday, in response to Roe having been overturned) All I Want For My Birthday is Your Donation to Planned Parenthood © Cara Sergio I don’t like telling people what causes they should donate to. What right do I have telling