Introducing…HINDER! Hinder is “an exciting new app that helps you keep track of all the unhinged anti-abortion zealots right in the palm of your hand!”
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“But in the war against abortion, fighting Planned Parenthood is easier than actually reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies. So instead of better sex education or broader access to birth control, Texas will get another lawsuit. That won’t do much to help everyday Texans, but politicians will be able to count it as a win. If only they could share the spoils of victory with a young woman who can’t afford basic health care.”
“In her recently published book Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It, author Kate Harding recommends we embrace an ostensibly horrible reality: That every boy is at risk of growing up to become a rapist. She makes clear that boys, by their nature, are not rapists by nature or fundamentally evil or misogynist—these are learned behaviors. In America, ‘we live in a rape-supportive culture,’ Harding writes. ‘Boys have to grow up here, too.’ Where is ‘here’? Per Harding, it’s in a culture of ‘aggressive masculinity that reviles the feminine,’ one so pervasive that we need to teach boys not to rape.”
“Our perception fuels racism. It fuels segregation. Our perception determines the way we treat each other.”–Matika Wilbur on why she’s traveled “more than 250,000 miles…to photograph every Native American tribe in the U.S.”
“I am not every shade of feminism. And I am not perfect.”–Carmen Rios on calling bullshit on labeling anyone a ‘Bad Feminist’
A study by Captain Obvious found that “men are threatened by intelligent women” and Cathy yawned.
“I love fashion, and I don’t see anything unfeminist about that.”–Riot Grrrl icon, Kathleen Hanna
Check out these new poems by Lucas de Lima. (Should you feel inspired, read this incredible interview with de Lima.)
“(Kathy) Acker famously came from money, and (Dodie) Bellamy quotes her, from The Birth of the Wild Heart: ‘I was wild because I was protected—I could do anything.’ Not so Bellamy or (Eileen) Myles, both of whom grew up working-class. You never get the feeling, reading either of them, that too much comfort made them adventurous. The element of boldness and risk often present in their work is all the more striking because it doesn’t feel purely aesthetic: Both of them appear to put themselves at stake, and to know what it means to do so without much to fall back on.”–From “Tell It Slant” in Bookforum
“You get your story and you hold onto it, and every time you tell it, you forget it more.”–Laurie Anderson made a movie.
Juliana Delgado Lopera talks about queering the Castro in the Bay Area Reporter: “The Queering the Castro series, she added, aims to answer the question ‘how do we come together as queer artists and queer writers and push through what is happening in the city right now.'”
Watch Latinx artists respond to the question, “How does Latin@ness/Latinidad influence your work?” in a video for RADAR Productions.
Are you a parent and out of ideas for your kid’s Halloween costume? Look no further.
Last but not least, check out this handy list of things women in literature have died from by Mallory Ortberg for The Toast (including “going outside at night in Italy” and “river unhappiness”).
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
