Your March Love Bomb
There's a lot of good out there. The magic in movies, music and more to be celebrated this month.
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On Sunday night, when Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman and woman of color to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography for her work on Sinners asked all the women in the room with her to stand up, I – otherwise slumped on my couch – felt an impulse to leap up along with the stars.
Not because I had anything to do with her incredible achievement, but because, as we approach the halfway mark in this hellrealm that is March 2026, I was thrilled that someone was publicly recognizing the humanity of women. “I really want all the women in the room to stand up because I feel like I don’t get here without you guys,” she told the audience in the massive theater. She’s right: we don’t get where we want to go without each other.
Another Oscars highlight: Jessie Buckley did not celebrate her Oscar win for best actress by “dedicating her performance to mothers” as the right-wing so often does (and as the conservative women’s magazine Evie claimed she did) but by specifically dedicating her work to “ the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.’
Truth. It is complex and chaotic in here, and sometimes full of f-ing rage.
Speaking of Evie, Emily Amick has done painstaking reporting to document the aggressive work the right-wing magazine does to undermine the use of birth control. Their basic message: “The pill is poison, your doctors are lying, and the answer is to get off birth control.” One article a month, for six years, in which celebrities and other influencers are quoted bemoaning the negative effects of birth control. Why? To create conditions for outright banning it.
“You don’t need every woman to believe birth control is bad in order to ban it. You just need a loud enough minority to create a justification for political action.”
And it’s working.
If you’re skeptical, a recent survey found that 39% of women 18-24 worry that using birth control could affect their ability to have a baby later in life, something for which there is no scientific evidence, Amick wrote with Jo Piazza
Okay, what Amick is uncovering isn’t a cause for celebration—but the fact that she’s out there doing the work certainly is!
But back to the Oscars!
Let’s talk about the reckoning of Timothée Chalamet, shall we?
