Jessa Crispin

Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

A truly progressive man would be one who rejects the social and economic advantages that come from masculinity, with a “feminine flourish.”

Stephen Greenblatt’s new book blames everything on Adam and Eve, but not in a religious way.

“Mindhunter” is a show about the charisma of the serial killer rather than the serial killer himself, it's about his power over our imaginations.

The Mom's March, set to be a right-wing answer to the anti-Trump Women's March back in January, was a bust. Why?

I'm thinking about creating a beguinage in Kansas City. Who's with me?

This is what identity politics looks like when it has gone a little senile.

The degradation of sacred femininity has a tendency to trickle down.