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Welcome to this month’s Feminist Friday, where I round up some of the best thought-provoking links, and we can discuss what’s going on in the zeitgeist. Our motto here: Feminism is for everyone.
Feminist Focus
Have you ever tried explaining women’s rights to a 7-year-old?
As part of her speech exercise at school, my daughter was tasked with talking about Susan B. Anthony. When I told her that women didn’t always have the right to vote or hold property in this country, she looked at me as if I were crazy.
“Who voted? Only boys? That doesn’t make sense,” she said.
“That’s exactly what Susan B. Anthony thought,” I said.
I love this age of 7, in what I imagine to be the last year of complete innocence before her peers start peppering her with random bits of contraband information and before someone declares that “Santa isn’t real.”
I predict that in the future we will have many a conversation about inequalities and how to fight for our rights and stick up for anyone underprivileged. This was our first one and, although I had to be careful with wording so she’d understand, I think we are off to a good start.
Feminist News Link Roundup
All the links that are worth clicking on this month. Some are serious, some not so much. All are food for thought.
- Why I refuse to be the office mom.
- 100-year-old suffragette posters
- Why Black Panther is a turning point for black women in film.
- How to run a female sexual empowerment brand.
- Ditching Andrew Jackson for Mary Jackson.
- Yoko Ono’s lost weekend — and mine.
- It Took Heather Graham Years To Make A Movie About Women Ditching Toxic Men
- Bookmark for next year: Free valentines featuring bad-ass women
- What it’s like to raise venture capital funding as a black woman in 2018
- Malika Favre depicted the New Yorker’s anniversary version of Eustace Tilley as a woman.
- Books written by women that I’ve added to my TBR list this week: Self-Portrait With Boy, Text Me When You Get Home, The Atomic City Girls, Algorithms of Oppression, Eloquent Rage
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