Feminist Friday 2/7
A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.
LOVE LETTERS, DRAG QUEENS & LEGACY
FEATURES & ESSAYS
Dee Rees and the Art of Surviving as a Black Female Director by Jenna Wortham
Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie by Aisha Harris
The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women by ZORA editors
Disabled and in Love With Me: The Abled’s Worst Nightmare by Imani Barbarin
She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. by Megan O’Grady
Decades after his arrest for having sex with men, a gay civil rights leader is pardoned by Samantha Schmidt
How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart by Parul Sehgal
Julia Pastrana A “Monster to the Whole World” by Bess Lovejoy
The History of Wives Replacing Their Dead Husbands in Congress by Anna Diamond
The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave by Channing Gerard Joseph
The Girl in the Huddle by Natalie Weiner
A Legacy of Incoherence by Amira Rose Davis
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post by Emily Peck
Why Men Think Plant-Based Meat Will Turn Them Into Women by James Hamblin
INTERVIEWS
We Will Be Seen: Tressie McMillan Cottom On Confronting Racism, Sexism, And Classism
LISTEN
A Code Switch Playlist For Black History Month by Dianne Lugo and Isabella Rosario
