“We can beautifully fracture our surfaces when we are challenged to confront what appear to be the limits of our selves. This is what working in collaboration means to me.”–Poet Dawn Lundy Martin
Charli XCX says her documentary, “The F Word and Me” is exploring how “the question ‘whats it like to be a woman in the music industry’ is annoying/complex but still necessary.” Continue reading
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Claire Vaye Watkins wrote a powerful meditation on pandering, privilege, and the patriarchy for Tin House: “If you like my book I’m grateful. But I remind you that people at the periphery will travel to accept and even love things not made for or toward them: we have been trained to do so our entire lives. I’m not trying to talk anyone out of their readerly response, only to confess to what went on in my mind when I made the book, to assemble an honest inventory of people I have not been writing toward (though I thought I was): women, young women, people of color, the rural poor, the American West, my dead mother.”
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“After an Appleton clinic temporarily suspended abortions earlier this year due to funding issues, there are only three clinics that provide abortions remaining in Wisconsin…NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin announced recently that it is piloting a program in Madison to provide food, lodging and support for Wisconsin women who have to travel long distances to receive an abortion.”
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“Black girls are six times more likely to be suspended than white girls…#SpringValleyHigh is everywhere.”
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Brittney Cooper writes for Salon about the “mundane terror” of the school-to-prison pipeline in America: “What struck me and many others with whom I spoke on social media, was the quiet resolve of the young girl who was attacked, as she saw the officer escalating…. It is almost as if she knew his brutality was coming, almost as if she were steeling herself for the blow, almost as if she was no stranger to having somebody with power put his hands on her, almost as if she were sure that no one would stand up to protect her. If those were her calculations, she was right on every count.”
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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!”
Available on: http://ladypartsjustice.com
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“Through the pink ribbon, corporate America has embraced cause-related marketing — reframing shopping as a way to fight disease…In terms of visibility, the campaign has been a colossal success. What it is doing for women’s health may be harder to quantify. For one thing, the pink ribbon is unlicensed and unregulated. Which means not only that any company can use the symbol to sell its products, but that those companies don’t actually have to commit a dime to breast cancer research.”–Read Jennifer Lunden’s PSA to women everywhere HERE.
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R.I.P. Chantal Akerman, “pioneer of modern feminist cinema.” You can find some of her films here.
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If you haven’t read “What Not To Do When Black Lives Matters Stages a Protest at your Goal Marathon,” then do so immediately.
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