“The real question we should be asking is: Who taught Roof to hate Black people, enough to kill nine of us, in a sanctuary? And can we really say that he is the only one?” — Alicia Garza in “We Were Never Meant to Survive“
Sandra Simonds highlights Trisha Low’s work in Part One of her series on Confessionalism in contemporary poetry by women.
Slate calls the Netflix show Sense8 a “queer masterpiece.”
This Queer Rock Camp in Long Beach in aiming to empower LGBT youth through music.
This former sex worker is the future of the labour movement.
People: ROXANE GAY’S TED TALK IS HERE.
Recently, I met the creator of Outtakes, a new web series created as “a way for trans people to share experiences and information, and to feel less isolated by reaching out and building community online” and I am so excited to watch it.
Still don’t understand what exactly HPV is? Bitch Magazine has a comic strip just for you.
Feminist filmmaker Allison Anders is so cool that she bought Greta Garbo’s records in an auction and writes about them here.
Taylor Swift might have more anti-establishment power than Pearl Jam and Frank Sinatra.
Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted President Obama to tell him that there could be no pride “while some 75 transgender detainees were still being exposed to assault and abuse in ICE custody at this very moment”.
Living legend athlete Mo’ne Davis was drafted into the Harlem Globetrotters one day before her 14th birthday, while in the middle of a civil rights tour. Seriously, Davis is amazing.
The Black Youth Project deconstructs what it meant when Hillary Clinton said “all lives matter” in a black church this week.
Feminist artist Miriam Schapiro passed away this week.
The Stonewall Inn has been unanimously granted landmark status.
I don’t know about you, but I’m really excited to read The Nizhoni Beat: Native American Feminist Musings Volume 1. According to Etsy, materials to make the zine included “paper and angst.” Yes!
Nayomi Munaweera speaks of being gathered together with fellow artists on the national frontlines of a conversation about race, and being speechless.
Go here for powerful words on what rape culture is by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman.
We’ve been tipped off to a new feminist sketch comedy web series called WOMYN INC.
Actress-turned-director, Rose McGowan discusses the institutionalized sexism of Hollywood by saying the following about a sexist casting call:
“It was just so dumb. I was offended by the stupidity of it more than anything. I was offended by the fact that (it) went through so many people’s hands and nobody red flagged it. This is normal by so many people. It was probably even a girl that had to type it up.”
Check out this award-winning episode of a radio show called Re: Work, which illustrates a portrait of Pati Garcia’s career as a doula and her “complicated and deeply personal relationship with the medical system.”
There’s a new Amy Winehouse documentary that attempts to paint a portrait of the artist as a young woman.
There’s less than a week on Kickstarter to help fund Girl Props, a film that seeks to deconstruct “tropes that dehumanize women in film”.
Chloe Angyal discusses white womanhood and its role in racist violence.
Watch the cast of Orange is the New Black shut down a sexist interviewer.
Maybe it’s because I write a lot of letters, some of which I never send, BUT THIS SEEMS LIKE THE BEST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS EVER.
WEIRD SISTER’s own Geri Kim has a new chapbook coming out from Recreation League. You can pre-order it here, and if you’re in NYC come to the launch party next Friday!
If you live in New York, this weekend is your chance to catch some wickedly feminist comedians such as Amy Poehler and the women of Broad City at the annual Del Close marathon.
If you live in Tucson, Arizona (which I used to!) you can celebrate queer resistance on the dance floor at La Cocina this weekend. “From Stonewall to the Sonoran desert because the first gay pride was a riot.”
Because there is a Feminist Music God, Bikini Kill records just re-released the iconic first two BK records, including a newly expanded edition of the second record!
Here’s an “alt latino” mixtape for for LGBTQ pride month. It had me dancing in the shower.
Check out this new release by “experimental avant-garde electronic feminist futurist” Los Angeles band Lady Noise.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
