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A Woman Becomes a Nightingale
Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
A Woman Becomes a Nightingale
Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
My So-Called Media: How the Publishing Industry Sells Out Young Women
Rookie is the latest publication for young women to shut down. How do you survive a system set up for you to fail?
Longreads Best of 2018: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Norma McCorvey Versus Jane Roe
In 1970, a homeless woman pregnant with her third child met with two lawyers at a pizzeria in Dallas. Did it matter, in the end, who Jane Roe really was?
Putting Together the Pieces of Her Grandmother’s Mysterious Death
For her essay in the New Yorker, Kate Daloz relied on a precious set of letters to tell the story of her grandmother’s abortion.
A Reading List for Reconsidering the Fourth of July
How should we think about the Fourth of July given the current circumstances?
Getting Out the Message To Save Himself
In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
They Wanted Her Body
Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.

