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