Feminist Friday 10/26
A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.
NEWS & COMMENTARY
“Practical Magic” is 20 Years Old and Just as Relevant as Ever by Alanna Bennett
When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men by Celeste Ng
Pioneer of women’s football in Mexico is latest victim of Tijuana violence by Nina Lakhani
Shirin Aliabadi, Iranian Artist With a Focus on Women, Dies at 45 by Katharine Q. Seelye
Celebrity Physicist Lawrence Krauss Will Retire from Arizona State in Wake of Harassment Investigation by Peter Aldhous
FEATURES & LONG READS
A Narrow History of Feminism Impoverishes Activism by Michelle Moravec
Theory Matters: Sex, Gender, and Alzheimer’s Disease by Reiches, Meredith, Boulicault, Marion, Bruch, Joseph, Noll, Nicole, Shattuck-Heidorn, Heather, Weir, Brianna, and Richardson, Sarah.
Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America’s Female Spiritualists by Diania London Potts
Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow by Antonia Noori Farzan
The Riot Grrrl spirit comes to video games by Emily Gera
Heidi Schreck on What the Constitution Means to Me (meaning her, and maybe you too) by Victoria Myers
“I’m not transphobic, but…”: A feminist case against the feminist case against transphobia by Lorna Finlayson, Katharine Jenkins, Rosie Worsdale
Cripple Perks: The Unreasonable Luxury of Living While Disabled by s.e. smith
On Female Rage by Colleen Tighe
One Year of #MeToo: What WOmen’s Speech is Still Not Allowed to Do by Jia Tolentino
Tighe: ‘Powerlifting Doesn’t Care What I Look Like by Karen Given
My Husband Doesn’t Want Me to Be a Firefighter by Amy Murillo, as told to K.L. Romo
Dear Runner’s World, Women’s Health & Amanda McCracken by Ellie Somers
