Kaitlyn Greenidge
What It’s Like to Lose Water in Jackson, Mississippi
Local organizer and college student Maisie Brown sprang into action as soon as the emergency was declared. She’s part of a long tradition of self-reliance in Mississippi.
Who Will Represent Us at the Polls?: A Primer on the Forgotten Sister Suffragettes
Looking back at three Black activists whose work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provides a blueprint for how to move forward in our current heartbreaking, history-making moment.
Yara Shahidi Has Been Preparing For This Moment Since Birth
The True Story of the Nun Who Became an Attorney General
An interview with Arlene Violet, the crime-fighting nun of Rhode Island.
A Closer Look at Beyoncé and the Female Deities She Channels
An homage to Innana, the female deity given the most power.
Kaitlyn Greenidge: Clothes for a "Late '70s Feminist Environmentalist Cult"
The clothes channel Rachel Carson―if she'd said, "Screw y'all for not listening to me" and ran away to lowland Texas.
What Happens When Ballet Puts Black Lives at Its Center
A revelation in dance.
Think a Brexit-Like Event Couldn't Happen Here? Think Again
Trust that your fellow voters are as racist and scared as the rhetoric suggests.
There's No Freedom in Failure
There is this other side of failure—when you come face to face with the limits of your understanding of yourself.
Building a Doll House, Searching for a Home
On encountering the kind of perfection that is always out of reach.
Shattering Three Generations of Beauty Myths
My grandma was the classic beauty, my mom the effortless one. And me? Well, I had potential.
This Story Is for Anyone Who Feels Invisible. I Used to Be Invisible Too.
Offstage, Kaitlyn Greenidge hardly spoke. But when she was asked to play a drug-addicted teenage prostitute, she discovered she could shout.
