Issue 01: The State of Women is now LIVE
ISSUE ARCHIVE
This section is the living archive of Both Sides Now, a home for each of our quarterly issues as they’re released into the world. Each issue centers on a single question or tension shaping public life, explored through essays, interviews, and visual work that resist easy answers. Together, they reflect our commitment to nuance, dialogue, and complexity, offering readers a space to sit with ideas, encounter perspectives beyond their own, and return to conversations that continue to evolve long after publication.
Issue 01:
The State of Women
Across political, cultural, and ideological divides, women are consistently perceived, evaluated, and assigned worth based on appearance—both externally in how they look and internally in how they perform identity—revealing a shared experience of scrutiny that transcends partisan lines.
Thesis
Across political, cultural, and ideological divides, women are consistently perceived, evaluated, and assigned worth based on appearance—both externally in how they look and internally in how they perform identity—revealing a shared experience of scrutiny that transcends partisan lines.
Guiding mission
