On HU

Featured Archive Post: Waiting for the feminist revolution with Jack Hill’s Switchblade Sisters.

Robert Stanley Martin continues his survey of on sale dates for significant comics with 1940-1941.

Chris Gavaler on masked band music for masked men.

Phillip Smith wonders whether a feminist Wonder Woman is a defeminized Wonder Woman.

Kristian Williams on superhero forking paths and diversity.

Julian Chambliss on his art project burning and burying the Confederate flag.

Nix 66 on the bravery of Laura Kipnis. Oh so brave.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the New Republic I wrote about how women in recent country music have been marginalized.

At Ravishly I wrote about

— Hot Girls Wanted, an documentary more sadistic than the porn it criticizes.

—Fifth Harmony and why girl group pop is roots music.

At Playboy I wrote about:

—the history of black women in country music.

—Caitlyn Jenner, and how we don’t know what gender is.

At the Guardian I wrote about Ms. Marvel, the Inhumans, the X-Men and dicey racial politics.

At Quartz I wrote about Tomorrowland and Hollywood’s vapid vision of political change.

At Splice Today I wrote about a really enjoyable indie band, July Talk.

At the Chicago Reader I did a short review of the latest Shonen Knife album.
 
Other Links

James Deen provides advice on faking orgasms.

Jeet Heer on the dudeness of libertarianism.

Jessica Luther on women in flat track motorcycle racing.

David Perry, from a bit back, on how to write an op-ed.