The Unknowable Diana, 20 Years On: A Reading List By Erin Blakemore Reading List Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?
Hilary Mantel’s Eulogy for the Unfinished Diana By Michelle Legro Highlight “As Diana was a collective creation,” Mantel writes at the Guardian, “she was also a collective possession.”
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List By Erin Blakemore Commentary The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Ellen Pao Is Ready to Name Names By Michelle Legro Highlight In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.
Serena Williams on Returning to Tennis and Embracing ‘Power’ By Mike Dang Highlight Williams plans to defend her Australian Open title just three months after giving birth.
Pregnant, then Ruptured By Joanna Petrone Feature After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Body Positivity Nudges Plus-Size Fashion Forward By Sari Botton Highlight Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.
How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons By Rachel Hoge Feature At a convention for stutterers, for the first time Rachel Hoge finds herself among many just like her.
The Gossip Columnist Who Became the News By Michelle Legro Commentary Liz Smith looks back at her role in the Trump divorce.
Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park By mabel Feature Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.
Who I Became at the Running of the Bulls By Ella Alexander Feature In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didn’t recognize.
Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values By Catherine Cusick Commentary RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
My Parents Said I Bruised Easily By Jessica Berger Gross Feature An excerpt from “Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home,” by Jessica Berger Gross.
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom By Danielle Jackson Highlight At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
Exile in Guyville By Sari Botton Highlight Liz Phair and Elizabeth Wurtzel discuss the sexism they each are seeing everywhere.
(Re)Merchandising NASA as a Feminist Act By Pam Mandel Highlight “I took the NASA shirts from the ‘boys’ section from where they were prominently displayed, and put them little kid eye level next to tank tops in the ‘girls’ section 20 feet away.”
Prosecutor, Interrupted: A Kamala Harris Reading List By Danielle Tcholakian Reading List Profiles of Senator Harris over the past decade show her as both smart and warm. Increasingly, they ask if she has what it takes to win.
Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You Think By Erin Blakemore Commentary While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
Another Tech Casualty: Dating By Pam Mandel Commentary “I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”
Curing My Flight Anxiety, One Book Tour at a Time By Jami Attenberg Feature Novelist Jami Attenberg discovered a surprise antidote to the anxiety that plagued her each time she had to get on a plane to promote a book.
A Witness to Other People’s Lives, Not Living My Own By Jennifer Romolini Feature Unhappiness Cloak: An excerpt from “Weird in a World That’s Not,” by Jennifer Romolini.
Dorothy Allison on How America Devalues Those Who are ‘Other’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Dorothy Allison on how American culture “inherently devalues the poor, the working class, the darks, the queer, the other.”
Protect that Underwear Zone: Abstinence Only Sex Education By Pam Mandel Highlight “When my state passed one of the most rigid abstinence-only sex education laws in the nation, I went back to school.”
When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Isn’t Fiction By Pam Mandel Highlight Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.
The Diagnosis and Surgery I Had to Fight For By Sari Botton Feature A series of doctors made it harder for me to learn about my severe uterine condition, and receive the hysterectomy I needed for it.
The Revolution Will Be Handmade! By Krista Stevens Highlight Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.
“That sort of thing doesn’t happen in America.” By Pam Mandel Commentary Tasneem Raja recalls her own female genital mutilation, which took “place in the bedroom of a family acquaintance in New Jersey in the late ’80s.”
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much By Longreads Feature Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Acting With Agency: The Power and Possibility of Heroic Women By Michelle Weber Highlight At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.
‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves By Sari Botton Highlight The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.
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