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