Love, Joy, Feminism
Saturday Link Love is a 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.
Who’s Afraid of Title IX? on Jacobin—“DeVos’s move was not a solo decision. The attack on Title IX marks the ominous culmination of a coordinated campaign four decades in the making by a coterie of free-market activists including the Koch Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Foundation For Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Earl Ehrhart, the DeVos family, and the Goldwater Institute, among others.”
How to Be a Socialist Without Being an Apologist for the Atrocities of Communist Regimes, on Current Affairs—“The critiques that Bakunin made of Marx exactly predicted the nature of the Soviet Union, decades before it came about.”
Man Comes Forward to Describe an Alleged Extended Sexual Relationship He Had at Age 14 With Kevin Spacey, on Vulture—“When I turned 25, I looked at every 14-year-old boy I could see, to try to understand what those men had seen, because I still on some level thought I had been a tiny adult. That whole year I was 25, I tried to just see the ones who were like six-foot-two, and 200 pounds — they all looked like children.”
The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer, on The New Yorker—“There are self-help books written for seemingly every aberration of human experience: for alcoholics and opiate abusers; for widows, rape victims, gambling addicts, and anorexics; for the parents of children with disabilities…. But there are no self-help books for anyone who has accidentally killed another person.”
My “Undesirable” Family, on William C. Rempel—“Effective at midnight, July 1, 1923, a new fiscal year began in the United States. And, precisely at that moment, a new immigrant quota year dawned.”
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