Marcie Bianco
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Recent Publications
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What Britney Spears’ Memoir Says About Womanhood
,” MSNBC, Oct. 2023
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Conservatives’ Liberal Arts Strategy
,” MSNBC, August 2023.
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What Pride Means in This Moment
,” WMC, June 2023.
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The GOP’s ‘Freedom’ Hypocrisy
,” MSNBC, March 2023.
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Trans Sports Bans & the Language of ‘Protection
,'” WMC, March 2023
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The ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act is a Pitiful Bandaid
,” NBC Think, Nov. 2022.
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Author Julia Serano Separates Sex From Stigma
,”
The Advocate
, July/Aug 2022 issue.
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‘The Janes’ is a Timely, Haunting Documentary
,” NBC Think, June 2022.
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The Cost of Being a Bridesmaid
,” DAME, June 2022.
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bell hooks’ death is a call to action
,” NBC Think, Dec. 2021.
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White Feminism by Design
,”
The Los Angeles Review of Books
, Nov. 2021.
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I Want My Lesbian TV,
‘ DAME, Sept. 2021.
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Box, Office
,” a review of
The Very Nice Box
,
The Los Angeles Review of Books
, Sept. 2021.
WMC Report on Sunday Morning Shows
, Sept. 2021.
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Jeffrey Toobin’s Performative Accountability
,” NBC Think, June 2021.
“‘We Were Act UP,'” a review
,
The Advocate
, May 2021 (Pride 2021 print issue).
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Ellen’s Culture of Kindness Feels More Like Complicity
,” NBC Think, May 2021.
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Britney’s Fight for Freedom Reflects Our Own
,” NBC Think, Feb. 2021.
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Men’s Use and Abuse of Britney Spears
,” CNN, Feb. 2021.
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Harry Styles’ Vogue cover and the tyranny of the gender binary
,” NBC Think, Nov. 2020.
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The Misogynoir of ‘Equality
,'” NBC Think, Sept. 2020.
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COVID-19 Anti-maskers hypocritical ‘my body, my choice’ rhetoric
,” NBC Think, Aug. 2020.
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Coronavirus Protesters Shout ‘Liberty!’
,” NBC Think, May 2020.
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The Freedom to Love in
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
,” WMC, Feb. 2020.
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Queer Women Worry About Staying Safe While Traveling
,” Vice, Jan. 2020.
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Edie Windsor’s Memoir Shatters Stereotypes
,” Women’s Media Center, Nov. 2019.
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Ellen, Dubya, and the Cost of Acceptance
,” NBC Think, Oct. 2019.
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Rad is America’s ultimate sports couple
,” NBC Think, Aug. 2019.
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Times Up on Heterosexuality
,” NBC Think, Aug. 2019.
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Reproductive Rights are Good for Business
,” Women’s Media Center, May 2019.
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What Does Women’s Equality Really Mean?
,” NBC Think, March 2019.
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How Some Lesbian Bars are Staying Alive (And Thriving) in 2019
,”
Out
magazine, March 2019.
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Karen Pence, LGBT Discrimination, & the Christian Right’s Embrace of Victimhood
,” NBC Think, Jan. 2019.
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Another Day, Another Mass Shooting
,” NBC Think, Nov. 2018.
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Why Hollywood’s Diversity Numbers Haven’t Budged
,” Women’s Media Center, Aug. 2018.
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Living Requires Forgetting, but Citizenship Demands Remembrance
,”
Stanford Live
magazine, May/June 2018.
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The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement
,” NBC Think, Feb. 2018.
Older Publications
I have written hundreds of articles, across many outlets. Below are links to my most prominent author/contributor pages:
AfterEllen:
Author Page 1
&
Author Page 2
Curve: (
You’ll have to use the Way Back Machine to find these…
)
Lambda Literary:
Book reviews & my literary column
Pacific Standard:
Literary & cultural long-form pieces
Quartz:
Cultural & feminist opinions
Rolling Stone:
Takes on entertainment culture
Salon:
Cultural & feminist commentary
Slate:
Cultural & feminist commentary
Mic:
News & opinions (what they didn’t erase)
Vanity Fair:
Feminist takes on Classic Hollywood
Vox:
Politics
Women’s Media Center:
Feminist media reflections