Monday Reads
A few great pieces to get your week started right.
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Happy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week.
From around the web:
When Women Fight Back Against Autocracy by Xanthe Scharff in the Atlantic
Meet Afghanistan's cycling Hashimi sisters, who escaped the Taliban to compete at the Paris Olympics by Ahmad Mukhtar in CBS News
A New Hope by Rebecca Woolf in the Braid (Substack)
I Shouldn't Need to Have Children to Matter by Charlotte Clymer on Charlotte’s Web Thoughts (Substack)
Trump’s Bro-Pocalypse Advisers Got Him ‘Cat Lady’ Vance by Nell Scovell in the Daily Beast
How the Sports Bra kicked off a women’s sports movement by Chabeli Carrazana in the 19th
Kamala Harris’ often-mocked speaking style is the strongest tool in her arsenal by Cydney Hurston Dupree in the LA Times
Peasant Feminists' Bold Struggle: How Kenyan Women Are Reclaiming Land and Equality by Tess Lowery in Global Citizen
From here and there:
Let Me Make Sure I Understand: Kamala Harris Is Too Hot and Childless to Be President? (Slate)
Kamala Harris’s Biggest Advantage (The Atlantic)
Can Kamala Harris save America? (The New Statesman)
How Trump Set Deadly Election Trap for Himself (The Daily Beast)
How Nancy Pelosi Got This Done (Slate)
It’s Fun When Politics Are Fun
Happy reading!
xx Jill + Tamar