Paid-members only roundtable Flytrap Roundtable Special: The FYP Won't Save Us There's profit in AI slop, but more importantly, there's power in community.
Paid-members only activism Amid Fierce Patriarchal Backlash and Surging Fascism, Does Freeing the Nipple Still Matter? A transgender woman with “indecent” breasts makes the case that topless equality is still worth fighting for.
disability Fake It Off Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community exposes not con artists, but the politics of disbelief.
Paid-members only television Can Coercive Control on TV Interrupt Real Cycles of Intimate Partner Violence? Television transformed how I think about abuse in romantic relationships.
Subcultures Inside the Tiny, Weird World of Halloween ‘Villaging' As part of this Boomer-coded subculture, two companies vie for the attention of weirdos like me, who prefer to spend their time—and money—constructing small, spooky landscapes.
Paid-members only racism No Perfect Neighbors in White Supremacy A new film that subverts the gaze of the surveillance state asks how we can build a better world for all children.
horror How I Learned to Love Supernatural Horror The story of how one exvangelical trans girl found herself marathoning episodes of Supernatural.
Paid-members only grief In a Time of Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline The comfort found in reading about loss will never replace the need to be in community with grievers.
Paid-members only film Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.
fiction Hell in a Handbook EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents show inner workings of the Underworld's largest afterlife services conglomerate.
Paid-members only colonialism Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization
Paid-members only racism Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.
music Don’t be a Dick: Follow the Karaoke Rules so Everyone Has a Great Time The social contract might be mostly dead, but we can help revive it one karaoke bar at a time.
Argentina Under Milei, Rural Feminists Fight for Rights and Resources A feminist community radio station in Argentina has changed rural women's lives, but right-wing government threatens its existence.
Paid-members only television If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.
politics The Changing Face of Evil: 'ICE Barbie' Kristi Noem’s Transformation and Our Slide into American Fascism Unlike ghoulish political predecessors such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s appearance is designed for reality TV and her aesthetic reflects the brutality of the Trump administration.
Paid-members only racism Racialized Credibility Why are white women’s scams fascinating, but Black women’s successes suspicious?
Paid-members only aging A Woman of a Certain Age Chrissy Stroop reflects on what aging means to her as a trans woman—and what it says about liberation for aged and aging people.
Paid-members only pop culture Hate-Reading Wirecutter in the Nascent Era of AI Slop I love the feeling of being recommended to, rather than recommended at. So-called “AI” is making that harder than ever.
Paid-members only pop culture Upending the Male (Film) Gaze The Flytrap spoke to the community organizers diversifying film culture away from the whims of film bros.
pop culture If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?
