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Mommy Issues

Jessa Crispin

September 28, 2017

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?

Get Thee to a City of Ladies

Jessa Crispin

July 11, 2017

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

Amnesiac Nation

Jessa Crispin

May 22, 2017

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

Mary Shows Up

Jessa Crispin

April 26, 2017

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

Why They Need the Cucks

Jessa Crispin

March 10, 2017

Strip The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy of its satirical critique, and you're left with a logic that is dismally familiar. The categories of embattled manhood now trafficked by the cuck-trashing, immigrant-bashing men of Breitbart or 4chan are shifting but ultimately ...

High on the Apocalypse

Jessa Crispin

January 30, 2017

Maybe we all just decided it was cooler to be George Orwell (who came from money) than H. G. Wells (who did not)—cooler to be the smirker saying, “Pah, it'll never work,” than to be the kid chirping, “Here is what we can do.” The H. G. Wells we find profiled in Krishan ...