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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
In a moment of digital weakness, we decided to expand our binge-watching opportunities to include Hulu — mostly, I confess, so I could finally catch up on The Handmaid’s Tale.
If you’re up to date on this dystopian show, you’ll likely agree that season 2 hit on some very timely topics.
Families separated upon seeking asylum. Children torn apart from their mothers.
Though I’m sure it’s gut-wrenching for anyone with a human heart to watch, my 8-months-pregnant self could barely stomach the fictional series, let alone the real-life version of such events taking place at our borders.
An article in Slate paints the overall picture of how women are being treated by the Trump administration in crystal-clear terms:
“On Trump’s watch, women are simultaneously infantilized and demonized, seen as both desperate for government guidance and unworthy of its support, forced to give birth but reviled when they do, and deserving of physical suffering for almost any perceived infraction.”
Not quite as desperate as in the Republic of Gilead. But then again, why are we even this close?
Feminist Links
All the links that are worth clicking on this month. Some are serious, some not so much. All are food for thought.
- Can we please stop blaming women for falling birth rates now?
- What did you think of season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale?
- How an iconic ’90s film normalized stalking.
- Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women.
- Girls with working moms get better jobs and higher pay.
- 17 real-life Would You Rathers I, a woman, have had to ask myself
- Why white women keep calling the cops on black people.
- When Brands Use Plus-Size Models but Don’t Make Plus-Size Clothes
- This Gwen Stefani article is very interesting.
- The Trump administration’s policies on family separation and abortion are driven by one view: A woman’s pain is fitting punishment.
- Why women’s voices are deeper today.
- The resurrection of the Rom Com.
- Sex and the City writers plot out modern episodes.
- The subtle sexism of your open office plan.
- Who owns the Women’s March brand?
- How do you teach a bad man’s good art?
- Books by women that I’ve added to my To Be Read list: Eden, Suicide Club, How to Love a Jamaican, Fat Girl on a Plane, 90s Bitch, Squeezed
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