Tell me that this isn’t the most victim-blaming letter you’ve ever read. Here’s a follow-up interview with the inspiring young man after his arrest, illustrating that this 14-year old boy hasn’t lost the feeling of support against bigotry.
Check out Mary Karr on the art of writing memoir: “I actually broke the delete button off my keyboard writing that book, and I always say if I had any guts at all, I’d make a brooch out of it.”
One of my favorite artists, Wynne Greenwood who “works across video, performance, music, and sculpture to explore the ways in which a single queer ‘self’ may be pluralized and mobilized to fluidly embody different subjectivities and personae” has a six-month exhibition and residency now on display at NYC’s New Museum.
This piece says that the reason so many of us like reading Joan Didion is because, “she’s not like us. She’s weird.”
Antonia Crane asks us to stop stealing from strippers: “Relegated to the fringes of the workplace, in part because of stigmas surrounding sex work, we are invisible…We have no health insurance, workers’ compensation or other benefits. We have zero security. Strippers, or dancers, as some of us prefer, are women on our way to somewhere better or different, twerking topless in a club that will never have our backs — a club that will demand arbitrary fees from us and skim a share of our hard-earned tips all night, caring little if we are here again next week or if we vanish.”
“More than 1,600 women were murdered by men in 2013 and the most common weapon used was a gun, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) study When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2013 Homicide Data.”
“The disparity between how the law treats abortion patients and IVF patients reveals an ugly truth about abortion restrictions: that they are often less about protecting life than about controlling women’s bodies.”
Kim Cattrall reminds us that you don’t have to have a child “to care about education or environment.” Seriously: stop judging women on how maternal we are.
Never read Lucia Berlin before? Many are referring to her as one of the greatest overlooked writers of our time. Read one of her short stories here.
Watch Amber Rose redefine the “walk of shame” in this hilarious and empowering video if you haven’t already.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
