Big Little Lies Protecting White Virginity

"A 16-year old white girl from Monterey? Wolf Blitzer is gonna saddle that up." Abigail (Kathryn Newton) contemplates auctioning off her virginity for charity.

[Content warning: this piece includes general discussion of rape and domestic violence.] Maybe every rich little white girl should auction off her virginity in support of Amnesty International, the way Abigail Carlson (Kathryn Newton), teenage daughter of HBO’s Big Little Lies protagonist Madeline Mackenzie, proposes to do. Abigail’s plot line gained little more than an… Continue reading Big Little Lies Protecting White Virginity

Activist Spotlight: Anna Saini on Identity and Being An Unlikable Survivor

Anna Saini in performance (photo by Nick Oscoff, courtesy of Red Umbrella Project)

Anna Saini is  a community organizer with Voices of Community Activists and Leaders – New York (VOCAL-NY), where she works towards  ending the drug war, mass incarceration and racist policing. Her writing appears in Bitch magazine, make/shift magazine, the forthcoming Dear Sister Anthology, her self published anthology Colored Girls, as well as both Red Umbrella Project… Continue reading Activist Spotlight: Anna Saini on Identity and Being An Unlikable Survivor