Feminist Friday 12/18
A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.
IRELAND, TRANS RIGHTS & FAMILY HISTORY
NEWS & COMMENTARY
A second migrant child died in U.S. custody this month. Here’s what we know by Joshua Barajas
‘Sheer Joy’: Ireland Will Have Free Abortion Care on January 1 by Sarah Jaffe
Twitter Is Indeed Toxic For Women, Amnesty Report Says by Emily Dreyfuss
FEATURES & LONG READS
Roxane Gay: ‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us’ by Aida Edemariam
What It Means to Be a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Meet The Feminist Academics Championing Trans Rights by Patrick Strudwick
The Imagined Threat of a Woman Who Governs Like a Man by Rebecca Traister
What would a city that is safe for women look like? by Amy Fleming
More Than Five Decades After Lisa Lane’s Success, Equality Still Eludes Women in Chess by Emma Baccellieri
The Family History DNA Can’t Reveal by Kaitlyn Greenridge
The Real Sex Lives of Historical Queens by Anna Silman