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Lindy West
Lindy West is a Seattle-based writer, editor and performer whose work focuses on pop culture, social justice, humour and body image. She's currently a culture writer for GQ Magazine and GQ.com, as well as the founder and editor of I Believe You | It's Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens.
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Why can’t westerns portray women as fully formed human beings with complex lives, and subvert the character topes of tragic brothel employee, bawdy brothel employee and brothel employee who is just OK with it?
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Unlike most of the movie, this latest superhero instalment is not a dream. It is really happening to you
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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Twitter slap-fight reveals the misogynist bigotry in the Republican DNA
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Last week, a Florida gun rights activist was shot in the back by her four-year-old son. How much longer will we keep participating in the collective lie that deadly weapons keep us safe?
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Abortion providers in the US risk death to help women. It’s time to #ShoutYourAbortion and thank them for giving us the right to steer our own lives
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The reasoning behind South Dakota’s ill-judged new law would be ludicrous if it weren’t so dangerous
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One Twitter feed lays bare the abysmal way women are described in film scripts. This relentless cultural messaging shapes female identity
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To see ‘neomasculine’ pick-up artist Daryush ‘Roosh V’ Valizadeh and his acolytes pilloried has been a strange experience for the women his site has attacked – including me
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‘I will hate myself until I turn into Gisele Bündchen’ is not a reasonable, reachable goal. Don’t treat yourself that way this year
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From Meryl Streep’s controversial T-shirt, to the furore over the Ghostbusters reboot, have you been paying attention to what’s been going on?
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After tackling revenge porn on the site, its former CEO was subjected to vicious abuse and forced to resign. Can the internet ever get over its misogyny?
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The Oklahoma City police officer knew the odds were rigged in his favour – we live in a world where police violence against black bodies isn’t simply tolerated, it is encouraged
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Here are the people who defined 2015 for me – at both ends of the spectrum
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I used to think anyone on earth would make a better president than Bush. The reaction of Republican presidential candidates to the Paris attacks has proven me wrong
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After decades of racism and casual misogyny, the punchlines are punching back. The American university system is currently the battleground for our next great culture war
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Last week I realised that, even among my pro-choice friends, I never, ever talk about my abortion. We need to chip away at stigma, at lies, at the climate of shame
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Canadian comedian Nicole Arbour thinks she’s ‘hella brave’ for telling fat people to eat less and exercise more. Here’s my message for any woman who agrees with her …
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Some content may be distressing. A considerate heads-up surely isn’t too much to ask?
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The policeman who killed Michael Brown gets more sympathetic coverage than the dead teenager did, and let’s not even get started on Cecil the lion
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As a fat woman, you are told to disguise, shrink or flatter your body. But I wasn’t going to hide at my wedding – the older I get, the harder it is to depoliticise simple acts
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We need to start speaking the truth about the US, about the accusations of racism levelled at retailer Zara and about the familiar shape of Dylann Roof’s crimes
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The vintage observational jokester says killjoys are ruining comedy. But where he sees a threat, I see marginalised voices finally being allowed into the club
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Our culture treats mens’ reputations with the same reverence as victims’ safety. That’s frightening
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The nauseating reaction to the first lady’s speech about being an African American proves that the internet’s brightest and whitest are still in deep denial
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The owner of a Chicago bar with a creepy secret has said it was just part of his ‘fun-house’ theme. But from lazy sexist laughs to Bill Cosby’s rape jokes, comedians have often treated women as a joke
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After all those straight white men, we are overdue a woman in the Oval Office. More than one, in fact …
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Parents may not be able to recognise that their child is obese, according to a new study. Well that’s two fewer people making their offspring feel like a failure
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'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety