Author Profile
Sady Doyle

Sady Doyle is an In These Times contributing writer. She is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why (Melville House, 2016) and was the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown. You can follow her on Twitter at @sadydoyle.
Doyle, who graduated from Eugene Lang College in 2005, has been writing about feminism, culture and media since 2008 at Tiger Beatdown and in articles for Salon, Bitch, Rookie, The Atlantic, Global Comment, The Guardian‘s Comment Is Free and The American Prospect, among other places. She’s the winner of the first Women’s Media Center Social Media Award. She’s interested in women in pop culture, women creating pop culture, reproductive rights, and women’s relationship to the Internet and the Left.
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How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches
Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism. MORE
Culture · January 31, 2019
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Serial Misogyn-Neigh: The New “BoJack” Explores How We Let Famous Men, And Horses, Off the Hook
Season five of BoJack Horseman turns a critical eye on its characters and itself. MORE
Culture · September 20, 2018
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We’re Still Locking Up the Mentally Ill
When the only prescription is jail time. MORE
Culture · June 8, 2018
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The Abyss of Motherhood
A tightrope walk without a safety net. MORE
Culture · February 13, 2018
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Alias Grace Is Even More Relevant to Trump’s America Than The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is used as a catch-all feminist allegory. But it's the specificity of Alias Grace, Netflix's latest Margaret Atwood adaptation, that makes it so pertinent. MORE
Features · November 10, 2017
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Hugh Hefner Wasn’t Just a Creep—He Was Also a Shitty Boss
To hear some tell it, Hugh Hefner changed what it meant to be a man in the 20th century. In place of God, country and family values, “Hef”—a persona... MORE
Working · September 28, 2017
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Mothers of the World, Unite!
A new Mother's Day Proclamation. MORE
Features · May 12, 2017
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Ivanka Trump’s Cosmetic Feminism Won’t Make It Easier To Raise a Kid
She puts a liberal gloss on her father’s agenda, but can’t mask his policies’ effects. MORE
Features · May 2, 2017
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To Protect Abortion Rights, Progressives Need to Think Big
The fight for reproductive justice is about to get harder, and now is no time for complacency. MORE
Views · January 6, 2017
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In “Fleabag,” TV Finally Gives Us a Female Anti-Hero to Love
The six-part British series shows us a self-destructive, bitter, angry young woman and trusts that we will care about her pain. MORE
Features · October 25, 2016