A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web

DIRTY DANCING, LADY POISONERS, & MOTHERHOOD

NEWS AND COMMENTARY

In Trump's 'Maternity Leave' Plan, The Devil--and the Stereotypes--Are In the Details by Galen Sherwin, ACLU Women's Rights Project, and Kate Meyer

Why You Can't Ever Call an Enslaved Woman a "Mistress" by Lincoln Blades

Waveforms and the Women's March by Briallen Hopper

FEATURES AND LONG READS

LISTEN Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, and Relationships

Audra Lorde's ABC's of Fighting Fascism: It's Time for All of Us to Face our History by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

The Deadly History of Women Using Perfume as Poison by Arabelle Sicardi 

Business Feminism by Stephanie Young

'Dirty Dancing' Led the Way in Depicting Abortion--If Only Other Media Would Follow by Steph Harold 

The 1940s Horror Movie That Embraced Lesbianism and Satanism by Thomas Hobbs

The Stolen Generation: motherhood in black and white by Laura Rademaker 

The Philosopher Queen: Rebecca Solnit by Keziah Weir

These Women in the Arts Don't Take No for an Answer by Koa Beck 

The Self-Construction of Black Women Physicists by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Histories of "Smut," "Porn" and "Obscenity"