Marcie Bianco

San Francisco

Freelance Contributor at Freelance

Editor at Stanford Social Innovation Review

Lesbian Feminist, writer, cultural critic. “Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom” out Sept. 5, 2023.

Articles

Opinion | The pricey faux feminism of Katy Perry's Blue Origin 'mission'

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Marcie Bianco

By In America, while a rising number of women are dying because doctors refuse to treat their miscarriages or are arrested for having them, where millions of women may lose hard-won voting rights while others are eradicated from public life and historical record because of their gender, six rich women did what rich people do best in perilous times: blissfully abscond to the safety of their own private estates or islands or yachts — or, in this case, spaceship — and flaunt their wealth to the...
Opinion | The pricey faux feminism of Katy Perry's Blue Origin 'mission'

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Marcie Bianco

This handout photograph released on April 14, 2025 by Blue Origin, From left, Gayle King, Bahamian-US former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, journalist Lauren Sanchez, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry and film producer Kerianne Flynn pose in their space suits ahead of the all-woman sub-orbital mission aboard the company's New Shepard rocket.
The depressing reality of that ‘historic’ all-female Blue Origin spaceflight

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Marcie Bianco

16 hours agoJeff Bezos was caught on camera taking a dramatic tumble as he ran to greet his fiance Lauren Sanchez after her history-making trip to the edge of space. Livestream video of the scene showed Bezos stumbling before face-planting into the desert as he rushed to check in on Sanchez and the rest of the all-female Blue Origin flight crew as their space capsule landed back on earth.
Last Look | Articles

1 week ago | ssir.org | Marcie Bianco

Images that inspire (more) Monument to a Peanut Farmer By The landmark in Plains, Georgia, gives a nod to the late president’s big grin and humble beginnings. Elephants in New York By The traveling exhibition The Great Elephant Migration raises awareness about the survival of the elephant species and our mutual coexistence.
Opinion | It’s our responsibility to remind Donald Trump that he's president, not a king

1 month ago | msnbc.com | Marcie Bianco

From using the White House’s South Lawn to shill cars for his biggest campaign donor to demanding taxpayer-funded ads that claim he victoriously closed the southern border, President Donald Trump is demonstrating that, as he stated in his first term, he has “the right to do whatever I want.” That’s his twisted interpretation of Article 2 of the Constitution, which describes the power of the president. Yet the president of the United States is not a king. He’s not a monarch ordained by a god.
Opinion | It’s our responsibility to remind Donald Trump that he's president, not a king

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Marcie Bianco

From using the White House’s South Lawn to shill cars for his biggest campaign donor to demanding taxpayer-funded ads that claim he victoriously closed the southern border, President Donald Trump is demonstrating that, as he stated in his first term, he has “the right to do whatever I want.” That’s his twisted interpretation of Article 2 of the Constitution, which describes the power of the president. Yet the president of the United States is not a king. He’s not a monarch ordained by a god.
President Jimmy Carter’s Hometown Peanut Statue

1 month ago | ssir.org | Marcie Bianco

A statue of a smiling peanut honoring former USPresident Jimmy Carter stands in the statesman’s hometown of Plains, Georgia. The second-talleststatue of a peanut in the world, the 13-footmonument was erected during his 1976presidential campaign as a nod to his time as a peanut farmer. Carter, who passed away at the age of 100 on December 29, won the Nobel PeacePrize in 2002 for his tireless work to promote democracy and human rightsaround the world through his nonprofit The Carter Center.
Masculinity, in 'crisis'? Or just a spectacle?

1 month ago | advocate.com | Marcie Bianco

Nothing says masculinity is in crisis like a chainsaw-wielding, 53-year-old billionaire strutting around on a stage shouting “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy! Chainsaw!” like a man-child proudly playing with a toy in front of adults. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. But is masculinity — the normative social roles, behaviors, and actions perceived as attributes of men — in crisis?
Neither Google Calendar, Elon Musk nor Trump can kill Pride Month

2 months ago | msnbc.com | Marcie Bianco

President Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office have included an aggressive push to erase diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the federal government, a movement that has swiftly been adopted by some businesses as well. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, scrubbed language about DEI initiatives from various reports. At the same time, some Google Calendar users noticed that cultural observances like Pride Month and Black History Month no longer appeared on the app.
Elephant Sculptures Promote Idea of Human-Wildlife Coexistence

Nov 18, 2024 | ssir.org | Marcie Bianco

Yes, there are elephants on the streets of New York! Dozens of life-sized elephant sculptures made by the Coexistence Collective, a community of 200 Indigenous artisans living within the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India, came to the city in early September.