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Andi Zeisler

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Andi Zeisler is a Senior Culture Writer at Salon. She has written about media, popular culture and feminism for almost 30 years as the co-founder and editorial director of Bitch Media, as well as in publications including Mother Jones, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC News Think, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the author of the books “Feminism and Pop Culture” and “We Were Feminists Once,” and has lectured on media literacy and digital activism at colleges and universities around the world. Find her on Bluesky at @andizeisler.bsky.social

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"Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here): Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood" (Julia Wertz/Black Dog & Leventhal)

Julia Wertz finds the humor in motherhood’s body horror

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Aubrey Plaza (TheStewartofNY/Getty Images)

Young widows like Aubrey Plaza don’t owe us anything

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Death and beauty (Aitor Diago/Getty Images)

The cosmetic industry’s new frontier: cadaver fat

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A polycule out for a stroll (igor_kell/Getty Images)

Non-monogamy has a PR problem

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Smart home overload (FG Trade/Getty Images)

Why is my toothbrush texting me?

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Empathy in action (oxygen/Getty Images)

There’s more than one empathy crisis

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Meg Stalter at the 32rd annual Actor Awards (Emma McIntyre/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The staying power of cigarettes

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Lindy West attends the Hulu "Shrill" FYC screening at the Television Academy (Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu/Getty Images)

People really love to see feminists fail

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Harrison Sullivan (HS Tikky Tokky) in "Inside the Manosphere" (Netflix)

I watched “Inside the Manosphere” with my son

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Love in the age of AI (demaerre/Getty Images)

Big tech wants you to give up on dating humans

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Jack Russell Terrier proudly holding a poop bag dispenser in his mouth (Anna Reshetnikova/Getty Images)

Is it rude to throw dog poop bags in someone else’s trash?

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Women thrown under the bus (Deagreez/Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell and Kristi Noem knew what they were doing

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Frustrated woman considers her options. (sukanya sitthikongsak/Getty Images)

Straight women are rewriting the rules of heterosexual life

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Tracey Emin pictured with "The End of Love" at the "Tracey Emin: A Second Life" exhibition at Tate Modern (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Tracey Emin turned her messy life into radical art

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Morrissey (John Shearer/WireImage/Getty Images)

Morrissey was always a jerk

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Newborns attended to by a nurse (Visual Studies Workshop/Getty Images)

Teen mothers were silenced in 1960s maternity homes. Could it happen again?

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Pictures provided by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files (Martin BUREAU / AFP via Getty Images)

The Epstein files are conspiracy-pilling everybody

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A seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth (JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty Images / Japan OUT)

Punch the monkey deserves better. And we do too

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Sunday reset cleaning (SeventyFour/Getty Images)

Why we’d rather watch strangers tidy than do it ourselves

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Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in "Wuthering Heights" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

We aren’t all reading the same “Wuthering Heights”

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Women studying in a college library (Maskot/Getty Images)

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars

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9 spring memoirs you won’t want to miss

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Gen X woman stressing out over hormone replacement therapy (Fiordaliso/Getty Images)

How the FDA fueled a menopause panic

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Protesters decry American ICE tactics (Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

Minnesota’s red-hat resistance isn’t Pussy Hats 2.0

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