Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Woman Becomes a Nightingale
Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
Posted inFeature
Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55
Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
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?
Posted inBooks, Story
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?
Posted inNonfiction
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.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews
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.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, First Chapters, Story
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.
Posted inCommentary, Culture, Current Events, Reading List
A Reading List for Reconsidering the Fourth of July
How should we think about the Fourth of July given the current circumstances?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Fear of a Pence Presidency
Would things be better if Mike Pence were President? What his past political missteps tell us.
