Book of the Day

Shirley Jackson's biographer on the writer's ability to find evil in the ordinary

I think she had a real sense that um women particularly were subject to social forces that acted upon their lives in ways in which they couldn't control and often were quite dangerous.

TED Radio Hour

The women missing from music

I accepted women didn't write music, but I wasn't like thinking about it. It was, I didn't question, let's put it this way, I didn't question. It was much later that I even thought about it.

TED Radio Hour

The women missing from music

at the end of the day, women were always creating, their music was there, but what disappeared somehow was our memory.

Code Switch

Why can’t people be normal about the WNBA? | Code Switch

The WNBA's rise has been fueled as much by a love for hoops as for the politics of it all. The league is obviously predominated by women who are black or queer or both and who are also really politically outspoken and all of that helped draw in lots of new liberal fans. But it also helped make the W a target of conservatives and the volume of that tension has really ratcheted up this year.

It's Been A Minute

The manosphere is coming for R&B | It's Been A Minute

A genre known for love, yearning, desire, heartbreak now asks, "Do women deserve empathy?"

Book of the Day

Author Liane Moriarty on her long-awaited sequel to 'Big Little Lies'

I guess I can remember reading books when I was younger about older women and thinking, uh, isn't that interesting? They're still they still have a a rich inner life. They're still people,

TED

The Power of Imagination — Onstage and Off | Suki Hillier | TED

I'd stopped trying to find Matilda, because I realized she'd been inside me the whole time. She was the girl I'd been dreaming about since I was three. I didn't become her. I just finally let her out.

Book of the Day

'Kin' and 'When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky' fictionalize the Jim Crow South

Black women are either stereotyped as terrible mothers or just bottomlessly maternal. And so I was really interrogating what does it mean to mother by choice? And what does it mean to mother not by choice?

Radiolab

The Gondolier

On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon.

Pivot

Kara Swisher on Trump's UFC Distraction: "This Was Grotesque" | Pivot

If progressives don't enforce the border, fascists will. And if Democrats can't come up with some sort of symbolism or role models that demonstrate strength and service as masculinity, then the Republicans sort of fill that hole with violence and misogyny, which is exactly what they're doing.

The New York Times

How Black Voters in Alabama Are Fighting G.O.P. Redistricting

As a Black woman in this country, just about every right that I have is some type of law that can be overturned. And in my lifetime, I'm actively watching those efforts happen.

Prof G Markets

Is Marriage a Bad Bet? A Divorce Lawyer Explains | Prof G Markets

80% of women under the age of 30 now don't have a kid. And I don't think it's because they've decided they don't like kids. I think it's because they're having trouble finding economically and emotionally viable partners.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice | WWDTM

It turns out we are allowed to have women on currency as long as the woman is imaginary.

Book of the Day

Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status

Citizenship was a private story, one women told in the dark where faces could not be seen

It's Been a Minute

Young women are struggling, too. Why can't we see it? | It's Been a Minute

Women have long been more likely than men to struggle with or being diagnosed with depression and anxiety... women's suffering, it's quiet because it's women have had to suffer quietly for a very long time.

It's Been a Minute

Young women are struggling, too. Why can't we see it? | It's Been a Minute

Women have long been more likely than men to struggle with or being diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Men are certainly reporting anxiety and depression more now, but to Faith's point, I think that's getting a lot of attention because that's a change, but that doesn't mean that women are thriving or are not struggling with depression and anxiety in the same way that they have been for decades.

It's Been a Minute

Young women are struggling, too. Why can't we see it?

Women have, you know, struggled with higher rates of depression and anxiety for a long time. I wonder what does this demographicwide crisis look like for women and girls?