Author: Shumaila Khan

The Philosophy of Main Character Energy

Call it delusion, call it digital-age dharma, but everyone’s living like the book deal is already in motion. “Main character energy” has emerged as both a meme and a mantra: the idea that one should live as though the camera is following, the soundtrack is swelling, and the universe is […]

The “Right” Feminists

In the spring of 1983, Andrea Dworkin released a book that unsettled even her staunchest admirers. Right-Wing Women wasn’t a call to arms but an x-ray, a forensic, unflinching study of a kind of political allegiance that confounds both liberals and radicals: the woman who kisses the hand that chains […]

Nice Girls don’t get the Corner Offices

The corporate world loves a woman who knows her place. She’s polite in meetings, punctual in email threads, and carries just the right amount of ambition to be seen as productive, but not enough to be seen as a threat. She smiles through interruptions, thanks people for stealing her ideas, […]