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Read why the Women’s World Cup was “nothing short of remarkable.” Meanwhile, this sports fan reminds us that “girls just wanna have fundamental human rights.” If you’re not sure why women’s soccer is a feminist issue, head over here.
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This week, Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover brought important responses from Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, among others. And the conversation continued with the hashtag #MyVanityFairCover.
The Lambda Literary Awards announced its 2015 winners this week. Congrats to all the winners and honorees! Continue reading
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Last week, the #SayHerName campaign and report and a National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls highlighted the stories of Black women who have been killed by the police. From #SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence:
We have emphasized that Black women and women of color’s experiences of racial profiling and police brutality are not aberrations or distractions from the central conversation, which features cisgender, heterosexual Black men and men of color as the prime protagonists, but rather are central to our understanding of the impacts of policing on our communities, and to the solutions we pursue.
Nation-wide action included a vigil in NYC’s Union Square and a protest by BlackOUT Collective in San Francisco.
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Activism & Herstory
“We really felt like there needed to be a space that people could relate to that didn’t blame black people for conditions we didn’t create,” explains Garza in “Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter”
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As protests around police brutality continue in Baltimore, this Salon/Radical Faggot article breaks down why “smashing police cars” and rioting are “legitimate political strategy,” and how calling protesters and rioters “uncivilized” or unconstitutional is racist and hypocritical.
This Washington Post article discusses the disgusting and unsurprising celebration by mainstream media of a mother desperately striking her son who is protesting in Baltimore: “Beatings are not transformative. They don’t empower. They simply punish the victims and accelerate the trauma, bringing the pain from the streets into the home.”
Black Girl Dangerous discusses the glaring double standards in media treatment of trans POC vs. trans rich white people like Bruce Jenner. Continue reading
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April 1st kicked off National Poetry Writing Month. A bunch of Weird Sisters are NaPoWriMoing over at GirlPoWriMo—stop by for fresh feminist poems popping up every day!
The Poetry Foundation blog’s group of featured writers this month is omg radness—Jennifer Tamayo delivers a message from The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo, Trisha Low reminds us that “Poetry Is Not the Final Girl,” and Gina Myers tells us what she’ll do while she’s not at AWP.
For those of us who are going to AWP this week, come say hi to WEIRD SISTER!
In other literary news, Morgan Parker is launching her new book, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, into outer space tonight in NYC.
Read The Volta’s great review of Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries. Continue reading
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This week, vintage photos of Friday Kahlo blew our minds with their beauty.
A current photo showing a period leak offended Instagram’s oh-so-proper sensibilities.
Thank Goddess for this Women’s Hip Hop History playlist from BitchTapes. And double-thanks to Bitch for highlighting the feminist hardcore band War on Women.
“Is it credible that fiction occupies a unique place? Credible that men who dismiss what female storytellers have to say as irrelevant to them, aren’t also inclined to dismiss – albeit unconsciously – what females of every variety have to say?” – Author Robin Black on men who don’t read fiction by women.
Poet Susan Howe and artist R. H. Quaytman talk about “the mother-daughter thing.”
“I can’t tell you the number of parents I’ve seen who think they’ve somehow failed at feminism because their daughters like lace and Barbie dolls; it’s much rarer to see the parent of a boy upset because his love of Batman and Star Wars doesn’t sufficiently challenge gender roles.” – An interesting piece on the devaluation of femininity.
In literary news, Brooklyn Poets launched The Bridge, a “poetry network connecting student & mentor poets,” this week.
Flying Object is hosting Where We Stumble: Dismantling Rape Sub-Culture this weekend in Western Mass. Registration for the event is closed, but you can still attend the public performance and open house.
The NYC CUNY Chapbook Festival starts this Tuesday! Check out the full line-up of fantastic panels and readings, plus the book fair featuring Belladonna*, Bloof, No, Dear, Monk Books and tons of other rad chapbook presses we love.
Check out The Critical Flame‘s latest issue, dedicated entirely to “The enduring power of Adrienne Rich.”
Next week begins National Poetry Month! Will you be NaPoWriMoing?
What else, what else, what else? Let us know what we missed in the comments! <3
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