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Feminist Friday 2/22

A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.

BORROWED BABIES, SURFING, MALE ESCORTS

NEWS & COMMENTARY

Female researchers get less funding on science pitches: study by CGTN

Death threats, rape threats and relentless abuse: the scandal rocking French media by Marie Le Conte

At Wisconsin High School, Accusations of Body Shaming at a Cheerleading Banquet by Juliet Macur

‘These Women’s Lives Mattered’: Nurse Builds Database of Women Murdered by Men by Caitlin Hillyard

Letters reveal Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylum by John Bowen

FEATURES & LONG READS

When Home Ed Classes Borrowed Babies by Erin Blakemore

Transgender Men and Sexism by Charlotte Alter

#ColorOurCollections - Europeana Blog

Lunatics: The Men Who Loathe The Moon by Hussein Kesvani

A Forgotten Botanist’s Stunning 19th-Century Manuscript is Now Online by Jonathan Carey

How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans by Sophie Lewis

The Fight for Gender Equality in One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth by Daniel Duane

Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize by Timothy J. Jorgensen

Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior. by Richard A. Oppel Jr.

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes by Ed Yong

White Witchery by Elissa Washuta

A New Generation is Taking on L.A.’s Latinx Beauty Rituals by Carmen Maria Machado

Exploring Her Own Experience of Psychosis by Rachael Combe

The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman by Kat Eschner

Jane Curtin is Playing it Straight by Michael Schulman

The Boyfriend Experience by Nona Willis Aronowitz

I Thought My Immigrant Mother Would Never Accept My Queerness. I Was Wrong by Krutika Mallinjarjuna

The Curse of the Twitter Reply Guy by Chloe Bryan

Hidden Black History in Appalachia by Jacqueline Clark

[WATCH] When Rivers Were Trails by Indian Land Tenure