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When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn’t often live side by side.
Meg Wolitzer • The Female Persuasion
Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights
nytimes.com
In 2024, the anti-feminist right prefers to at least claim to have women’s equality at heart. By allying with transphobic feminists, they can have their cake and eat it too: avow support for women and still police them
Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.
Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
Are Republican Women Okay?
nymag.com
Imagining communities isn’t simply about who can be in the community, but also about who in the community can participate in imagining the community. This is why the move to undo birthright citizenship, which not-so-subtly targets people of color, must also be understood alongside the move to restrict reproductive access and repeal no-fault divorce... See more
Reproductive control and attacks on citizenship go hand in hand
Clinton’s loss, which I will mourn forever, might reiterate the importance of making space for the difficult woman. It might also point toward the way that valuing a woman for her difficulty can, in ways that are unexpectedly destructive, obscure her actual, particular self.