Feminist Friday 4/26
A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web
MONSTERS, PENIS-VAGINAS, & PICKLES AND ICE CREAM
FEATURES & LONG READS
Whose Story (and Country) Is This? by Rebecca Solnit
10 Books to Read by Living Women (Instead of These 10 By Dead Men) by Emily Temple
In Nobel Scandal, a Man Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct. A Woman Takes the Fall by Christina Anderson
Why Female Monsters In Fiction Are Always Single — And What It Says About How Society Views Unattached Women by Charlotte Ahlin
‘Circe’ Shows Us How Storytelling Is Power—And How That Power Can Be Seized by Chelsea Leu
After 90 years, a Broadway headliner gets a headstone by Cory Kilgannon
Teaching the Early Modern "Penis-Vagina" by Julia Gossard
Hysterical Cravings: How “pickles and ice cream” became the iconic “crazy” snack for pregnant women by Rebecca Onion
When a Public Official Sells Feminism, Who Is Being Empowered? by Ellie Shechet
These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? by Sebastian Smee
‘Sully’ was just a hero. Why label the Southwest captain a ‘female pilot’? by Beverly Weintraub
The Leadership Roles in America Where Women Are Outnumbered By Men Named John by Claire Cain Miller, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz
The Handmaid's Tale and Suffering of Women by Sophie Gilbert
What Fullness Is by Roxane Gay
'Wake' Is A New Graphic Novel That Tells The Forgotten History Of The Women Who Led Slave Revolts by Kylie Rodriguez-Cayro