When Lips Speak for Themselves: A Reading List on Red Lipstick By Alison Fishburn Reading List Red lipstick is more than a cosmetic. In this reading list, Alison Fishburn explores its power.
Where the Men are Scarier than the Minefield on the Mountain By Krista Stevens Highlight “No longer should women feel weak.”
‘What Is Missing Is Her Soul’: Women and Art, Girls and Men By Alana Mohamed Feature In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.
‘Women Can Be Required To Wear Something That’s Painful.’ By Victoria Namkung Feature Summer Brennan talks about femininity and suffering, beauty and biology, and the startlingly dark turn she found herself taking when writing about women and power in her new book ‘High Heel.’
The Blaming of the Shrew By Sara Fredman Feature Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.
‘I Knew It Was Not My Correct Life, Because It Asked Me To Mute My Voice.’ By Jane Ratcliffe Feature Reema Zaman on deciding she would no longer live to please men, and how women’s self-esteem and self-love is a revolutionary act of dissent.
A Reading List to Celebrate World Breast Pumping Day By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Here’s a reading list to celebrate World Breast Pumping Day on January 27.
The Silence of Women By Longreads Feature Women who spoke too angrily or too publicly were punished in cruel and unusual ways.
‘I Really Hope a Lot of Men Read It’: Sohaila Abdulali on How We Talk About Rape By Laura Barcella Feature Sohaila Abdulali wants us to pay attention to what we’ve been missing when we talk about rape, meaning everything from how we fail to address rape as a global crisis to how survivors experience PTSD at the dentist.
From the Sidelines: A Reading List on the Need for Female Coaches By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List Nine stories examining the lack of and dire need for more women coaches in sport.
Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It By Longreads Feature Some women successfully free themselves from emotional labor, but I don’t want to give up the work of caring. I just want others to care as well.
Karina Longworth on the Women Caught in Howard Hughes’ Hollywood Web of Gossip By Rae Nudson Feature Howard Hughes used gossip, spies and money to control Hollywood’s women for nearly 60 years. Karina Longworth critically examines the Golden Age’s gossip to stop his false narratives from becoming our history.
Women Are Really, Really Mad Right Now By Hope Reese Feature Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.
The Sexist Trials of Female Attorneys By Katie Kosma Highlight Women trial lawyers share their experiences of destructive sexism in the courtroom.
Leaving a Good Man Is Hard To Do By Kelli María Korducki Feature When women end relationships, it seems like the emotion we most acutely feel is the guilt of having pushed it away.
A Frustrating Year of Reporting on Black Maternal Health By Danielle Jackson Feature Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.
‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case By Will Hermes Feature Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers By Longreads Feature How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
Women and the War on Wrinkles By Krista Stevens Highlight As women age, they lose their “pretty privilege.” As men age, they just get more powerful. Chelsea G. Summers examines the imbalance.
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean By Natalie Daher Feature On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
Use and Abuse By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Amy Long on how it feels to fight for the man you don’t want.
The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses By Jessica Gross Feature Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.
Kara Walker’s Subtlety By Longreads Feature In the summer of 2014, Kara Walker’s sphinx posed a riddle about women, sweetness, and power.
Asking For It By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.
Me Too, Except I Didn’t Stay Silent By Longreads Feature In the places I’ve worked, sexual harassment was identified as something that could destroy an organization. It was a story with consequences.
When Will the Auto Industry Succumb to the #MeToo Revolution? By Sari Botton Highlight The New York Times investigates ongoing sexual harassment and misconduct at Ford.
My Secondhand Lonely By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Raised by a single, independent mother, one young woman struggles with her familial inheritance and the relationship between self-sufficiency and social isolation.
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism By Danielle Jackson Highlight The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Bronx Rapper Cardi B Became a Pop Sensation, But Will She Make it Last? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity.
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