By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 11 years ago

What We Missed

We’re less likely to recognize Depression in men than we are in women, because patriarchy.

Worldwide, the number of transgender people who were murdered went up – by 20 percent – in 2012.

Why did TSA find it necessary to pat down Solange Knowles‘ afro?

Unemployed black woman pretends to be white and finds she has many more job offers as a result.

New York, NY

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia.

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