Just the Tip is a sex and relationship column hosted by queer non-monogamous kinkster Jera Brown. Here you will find interviews with sexuality researchers and educators as well as smart and compassionate responses to anonymous questions. If you would like to be interviewed or have a sex or love question you’d like Jera to answer, […]
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Review: The Flawed Feminism of ‘Barbie’
Congrats to producer Margot Robbie for backing female filmmakers Emerald Fennell on Saltburn and Greta Gerwig on Barbie. And kudos to these writer/directors who are also mothers. It’s no easy feat to be successful in either capacity yet they manage to thrive. This week, their movies received five British Academy Film Award nominations each. And […]
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Review: ‘Survival of the Thickest’ Netflix Series Starring Michelle Buteau
2023 Netflix series Survival of the Thickest, starring stand-up comedian and actress Michelle Buteau, is adapted from Buteau’s autobiographical book of essays of the same title. The 2020 Simon & Schuster publication, Survival of the Thickest, is a comedic and detailed take on Buteau’s life up to that point in her own voice, which serves […]
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Interview: Andie Main on the Journey of Creating Her New Album, ‘Rocky Mountain Bi’
Andie Main’s sophomore comedy album Rocky Mountain Bi, out January 12 via Blonde Medicine, is the perfect listen in the new year. On it she hilariously discusses several radical life changes – such as getting sober and becoming a hiker – making deals with her mom, and the pros and cons of ghosting. Chatting by […]
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Claudine Gay’s Resignation at Harvard Proves Black Women’s Leadership is Still Political
Originally published by The 19th This column first appeared in The Amendment, a new biweekly newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to future analysis. In her dissent in last summer’s Supreme Court case striking down affirmative action, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, wrote: “History speaks. […]
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2024 Showcases 3D Art by Women
Chicagoans are encouraged to celebrate nature’s beauty and a woman’s aesthetic touch via 2024 exhibitions that display everything from female-made clay works, shadow boxes and papier maché to floral creations and plant installations. Although women have historically been overlooked for their contributions to the ceramics field, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Radical Clay: Contemporary Women […]
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Review: Home Sweet ‘Saltburn’
Emerald Fennell’s latest film Saltburn (2023) isn’t as promising as her directorial debut Promising Young Woman (2020) but those who appreciate allusions to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), and Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) should find it entertaining. The black comedy/psychological thriller about […]
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A Selection of Rebellious Magazine’s Most-Read Stories of 2023
Congratulations, readers, we made it through another one together! Now we just gotta brace ourselves for 2024. 2023 was an amazing year for live music, and you loved our coverage just as much as we did. You also peeped our reproductive justice, sexuality, sexual health and sex ed stories made possible by generous funding from […]
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Rebellious (Better Late Than Never) Gift Guide 2023
Greetings fellow last-minute shoppers! We missed Hanukkah this year, but we still have Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve and Day to bestow some gifts that keep on giving. (Right now it’s giving you better hurry, bish.) While past gift guides have focused almost exclusively on Chicago, this year’s list reflects national options and local […]