If you haven’t read “What Not To Do When Black Lives Matters Stages a Protest at your Goal Marathon,” then do so immediately.
“Feminism has to realise it’s really about intersectionality … but that word tends to be off-putting. That just means that we inhabit more than one identity. I’m not just a woman. I’m Haitian American. I’m Catholic. I’m from Nebraska. I have a body. I have tattoos. I mean not all of these identity markers matter as much as others.”–Roxane Gay during an “awkward” discussion with Erica Jong
“I would not be talking with you right now if I had not spent like 50 percent of the past four years on the internet. It’s what’s allowing the younger generation to survive, especially for those growing up in communities where there are no trans people around because they’ve all left for cities or found other havens. The internet is the only way out.”–Hari Nef in conversation with Zackary Drucker
“I weep for the American public, robbed of the right to see me in a snappy little suit, telling jokes and doing bits with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Lawrence. Weep for them. Would it drive me insane? Limit my ability to pursue other opportunities? Yes and yes. But I love America so much, I would be willing to risk it all.”–Comic, Eliza Skinner on whether she’d want to be a late-night talk show host
Can you believe that “a series that highlighted workplace misogyny employed a surprising number of female writers“? This article changes the way I think about Mad Men.
“Even as the health of Americans has improved, the disparities in treatment and outcomes between white patients and black and Latino patients are almost as big as they were 50 years ago.”–From “When Racial Bias Overlaps with Healthcare”
If you’re going to mansplain to me about women’s healthcare, you might want to CHECK YOUR SOURCE.
Speaking of people not being able to handle what a woman chooses to with her own body, check out what vaginal knitting artist, Casey Jenkins is doing with all the “angry Internet comments” she’s received.
Today, New Yorkers can check out a new work by filmmaker and printmaker, Holly Fisher with live sound by Ha-Yang Kim, followed by a screening of Fisher’s “Bullets for Breakfast” at Microscope Gallery. “Bullets for Breakfast” has been described as both “a Western filtered through a post-feminist movement sensibility” and as an example of “feminist structuralism.”
Eileen Myles has started “a book tour diary & a gender war journal” called Lady-Lyke and we at Weird Sister couldn’t be happier. Speaking of happy Weird Sisters, Weird Sister writer, Morgan Parker will be co-MC-ing Myles’ upcoming NYC book party to launch the release and re-release of her two books, I Must Be Living Twice and Chelsea Girls. I have the honor of being one of the many writers who will be reading excerpts of work from these two incredible works. Hope to see you there!
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
