Bobby Seale and D’Angelo on how “It’s the same fight”:
“What’s the church doing on fire?” asks Associate Pastor Jeanette Dudley in this Washington Post piece about five predominantly black churches in the South burning within a week.
Liz Prather lists steps that all teachers should agree to act on without reservation, reminding educators that “ignoring racism does not make it go away; it makes you a collaborator in the discrimination.”
“As a young woman on the outskirts and looking to move into the professional world of academia, I am required daily to prove my legitimacy and capability of working at this public institution… To put it simply, I don’t have sick days to spend on IUDs.”
April Wolfe says that she can “cry over the state of” her existential dread on her own, but in her female friendships, she seeks something else.
“‘The state of Texas refused to use the word spouse,’ Lopez del Castillo said. While he is happy about the recent Supreme Court decision, it is also very bittersweet.”
Listen to Cherríe Moraga discuss the importance of Chicana feminism here.
A workers’ compensation case involving sex workers was settled in Fort Lauderdale.
Read about the queer sex positive films of Shine Louise Houston here.
Talk about a power duo: Zadie Smith and Claire Denis are collaborating!
Misty Copeland is the first African-American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater.
Jessica Goldstein argues that being a comedian is not a “get out of jail free card” where racism is concerned.
An independent radio station in the East African country of Burundi is looking for funds to rebuild itself after being destroyed after a peaceful protest was co-opted by a military coup.
Ann Friedman wishes that marriage wasn’t the only path to federal rights and benefits in modern America.
A “performancy forum” featuring Allison Brainard, Angela Freiberger, Helina Metaferia, Maria Hupfield and Christen Clifford aimed to debate power, objectification and love will take place in Brooklyn on July 11th.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg seems to think that Facebook’s transphobic “real name” policies are the same policies that will protect a woman from a “violent ex-husband,” and I think there’s some very flawed logic there.
Immigrant trans women are 12 times more likely to face discrimination because of their gender identity.
“Girl Scouts is for every girl,” said Council CEO Megan Ferland, who refused a $100,000 gift from a donor who did not want their funds to be used in support of sending transgender Girl Scouts to camp.
I think I need to start watching Sisterhood of Hip Hop as it looks pretty darn good.
Autostraddle discusses the feminist themes of Orphan Black, which I may also need to start watching.
“So yes, marriage equality erases an odious and invidious distinction among straight and us not-straight citizens for which I’m truly glad and which I celebrate. And it’ll make lots of people’s lives better. But it also leaves unexamined the reason sex seems to give you benefits and recognition — and why it orders the world and civilization.”
Did you know that Bikini Kill Records manager and CASH Music Executive Director Maggie Vail has a radio show that you can stream?!
Here’s a beautifully written essay/review of J. Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure in which Halberstam responds.
I’m really excited to listen to the oh so perfectly-named “Saved by the Spell” podcast, which focuses on astrology, advice, love, sex, relationships, and all things witchy.
Congratulations to t’ai freedom ford on being awarded the 2015 To the Lighthouse Prize.
Check out this excerpt from Naomi Jackson’s debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill.
WEIRD SISTER Editor Marisa Crawford has a poem that I can’t wait to read called “Lady Gaga Looks like Aunt Linda” in the latest issue of the Minnesota Review.
Anastasia Selby writes about her father in the powerful “My Dad, Forever a Stranger.”
WEIRD SISTER regular contributor Kati Heng discusses how literature often “comes up short exploring the crisis of the twenty-something girl” in her review of Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl and Halle Butler’s Jillian.
Check out a new poem by Sonya Vatomsky over at The Nervous Breakdown, and the latest issue of 90s Meg Ryan, featuring poems from Nina Puro, Nate Logan and other greats.
Reminder: You can’t hold us down.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
