The national conversation about police brutality continues, as murder is tolerated in and out of the U.S. prison system.
This article reminds us, “if we want to understand how President Donald Trump would govern in relation to women, people of color and economic policy, more than 10 years of video evidence captured… paints a damning picture” via The Apprentice, which created some of television’s “most bigoted tropes.”
“On an average summer day, I wear dresses because they are usually easier to put on than pants.” — Kendra Dawsey on “Why Am I Really Wearing This Dress?: On Clothing and the Pressure to Be Feminine”
This article about gender bias in the workplace pretty much made steam come out of my ears, which, according to this study, would have me “perceived as less competent but also less valuable than an equally assertive male counterpart.” The tip to thwart gender bias actually surprised me.
Speaking of gender bias, between 2007 and 2014, “women made up only 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing fictional films” released in the U.S.
In sports news, a woman finally won the Canadian Death Race. No, that’s not a metaphor.
“It’s not like I was some random black girl who was walking outside the building at the time. They had been watching me for years. I know why they hired me. They hired me because I deserve to be on the show.” — Sasheer Zamata on not filling a demographic for Saturday Night Live.
The star of my favorite (feminist) TV show, Orphan Black, calls Hollywood sexism, “never ending.”
Artist Abigail Felber thinks her refusal to go to “Southern lady” etiquette school is linked to making her the successful artist that she is today.
Emily Brandt, Rosebud Ben-Oni and other poets discuss literary activism.
Read this call for increased diversity, accessibility, and transparency from AWP.
Congratulations to WEIRD SISTER’s own Marisa Crawford and Becca Klaver—Marisa’s chapbook Big Brown Bag was chosen as the winner of the 2015 Gazing Grain Press feminist poetry chapbook contest, and Becca’s second book, Empire Wasted is forthcoming next year from Bloof Books!
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
