Love, Joy, Feminism
Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.
Inclusion in this list does not imply full agreement.
5 Ways to Make Parenting Teens The BEST Phase Yet, on Jessica Goforth Francis—“Honestly, I couldn’t wait to have teenagers. I wanted them to be all those teenager-y things I didn’t get to be!”
The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s, on Open Culture—“The mistake was perfect, and suddenly many UK grandmothers were being asked by their grandchildren to recreate their hero’s look.”
The clockwork rise of Donald Trump and reorganization of American parties, on Vox—“If the new cleavage line in American politics has moved from one that separates liberals from conservatives to one that separates populists from cosmopolitans (or is at least shifting that way) then Sanders and Rubio’s losses make sense; they’re not maximizing the most voters they can along the dominant dimension.”
Sham Pediatric Group: Allowing Kids to Choose Their Gender Amounts to “Child Abuse” on Friendly Atheist—“The Religious Right has been saying this for years, and now they have a professional organization backing them up. Unbelievable, isn’t it?”
Tennessee Anti-Transgender Bill Defeated by the Voices of Young Trans People, on Feministing—“Republican South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard originally said he had not met a trans person and did not need to before considering an anti-trans bathroom bill passed by the state legislature.”
‘We were just burning’: Ga. man poured boiling water over gay couple as they lay in bed, police say, on Washington Post—“Marquez Tolbert buried his face in his hands. His chest contracted with a stifled sob. When he looked up, a patchwork of angry red welts became visible on the side of his neck.”
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