Occupation: Columnist Birth: 1972
The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about befo….
Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react..
It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in gener….
The media is such a huge piece of how we understand feminism, particularly celebrity feminism, and I really do think that so much of how that stuff g….
Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in ter….
We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that….
Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that that per….
People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate informa….
There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own end….