programming notes Featured We've Gone UNION, Baby! The Flytrap is partnering with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies.
Paid-members only social media Deny, Defend, Depose, Slay: How Luigi Mangione Became a Thirst Trap Luigi Mangione almost sparked a grassroots rebellion against health insurance companies. Instead, we got more stan culture.
Paid-members only resistance to fascism The District of Abortion Washington, D.C.’s murky legal status could have a devastating ripple effect on abortion nationwide.
Paid-members only pop culture Does It Really Matter if ASMR Is a Sex Thing? The debate over whether ASMR is a fetish opens a can of worms about human sexuality — and workplace safety.
Paid-members only abuse and abusers We Got Women’s Safety All Wrong Not only does gender-based violence remain pervasive, narratives of fear are successfully pushing us toward increasingly carceral solutions.
Paid-members only fashion Queer Joy! at the Bra Store How the lingerie boutique where I worked as a bra fitter became an intimate space for shared queerness.
aging ‘Take Care of Your Own, As Long As You Can’ For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.
resistance to fascism The Quiet Provocation of Flying the Mexican Flag As more Mexican flags sprouted up in my North Carolina neighborhood, I could not figure out if my neighbors wanted to symbolize immigrant pride or their fatigue over Trump’s shit.
Paid-members only imperialism Maps Have Always Been A Colonial Tool of Expansion—Techno-Fascism Is Making It Worse How are the colonial applications of cartography, mixed with growing techno-fascism, helping Donald Trump's expansionist agenda?
Paid-members only pop culture Dad Rock Is Our Daddy Now Queer and trans people may seem like unlikely fans of the genre. But its essential earnestness may explain its appeal.
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Paid-members only religion Can the American Secular Movement Listen to Its Better Angels? More Americans are secular than ever. Can the institutions meant to represent them keep up?
Paid-members only education The Robin Hood of For-Profit Education Matriculating into the University of Phoenix under my dad’s name was a way to repay him for all of his hard work, but in the end I could only take him so far.
Paid-members only family Why the Youths Are Choosing Avocado Toast Over Marriage This time it's not just millennials ruining everything.
social media #DeathTok is Actually Full of Life The dead and dying people in this micro community on TikTok are seizing control of their own stories and death journeys.
Paid-members only urban planning Why Are So Many Trans People Into Urban Planning? Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
pop culture You’ve heard of Pink Money, but have you heard of Brazil Money? Will the global north ever love Brazilian culture as much as it loves our money?
Paid-members only pop culture Virginity is Fake, So Why is it Still a Rite of Passage? Despite its reputation as a sexist film, I rewatched “American Pie” and some parts still hold up for me, more than 25 years later.
books A New Era for Latino Cookbooks Latino cookbooks written by Latino people used to be an anomaly, but with the publication of “SalviSoul” and “Bodega Bakes,” the canon is expanding even further.
Cancel Me, Daddy Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell) The "Cancel Me, Daddy" podcast transcript and show notes for 3/6/2025
Paid-members only fashion The Enshittification of eShakti eShakti ghosted workers and customers alike, and the dream of something better than fast fashion died with it.
