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:
The Right Is Running a Dangerous Scam Under the Banner of “Women’s Rights.” Don’t Fall for It. by Allison Chapman in Slate
What Nikki Haley’s history-making campaign tells us about the GOP and women by Mel Leonor Barclay in the 19th
A lot of moms can’t see themselves in Katie Britt’s kitchen by Monica Hesse in the Washington Post
‘It’s a Way of Life’: Women Make Their Mark in the Ukrainian Army by Nicole Tung in the New York Times
Opposing oppression is a feminist act – don’t look away from Gaza by Arwa Mahdawi
Let’s Not Take Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills for Granted by Jackie Flynn Mogensen
Will the Supreme Court Now Review More Constitutional Amendments? by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker
Freedom of Sex: The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies by Andrea Long Chu in Intelligencer
From here and there:
The Two Americas of the State of the Union
The IVF Backlash Shows Almost No One Believes an Embryo Is a Person
The bizarre opposition to a Sandra Day O’Connor statue (CNN)
Alabama’s IVF ruling criminalises women’s bodies (The New Statesmen)
Happy reading!
xx Jill + Tamar
Do you suppose the Kitchen stunt was someone trying to make Sen. Katie Boyd Britt a Phyllis Schlafly?
The Andrea Long Chu, "Freedom of Sex", essay is wonderful. Thank you.