Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin is the author of The Dead Ladies Project, among other things. She is a columnist for the Guardian US and hosts the podcast Public Intellectual. She can be found at jessacrispin.com

L'Envoûteuse (The Sorceress) by Georges Merle, 1883

Education & Society

Feminism’s Hidden Spiritual Side

Sometimes the pursuit of gender equality requires a little witchcraft.

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Arts & Culture

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

Jessa Crispin

Feminism’s Hidden Spiritual Side

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