New York! This Wednesday, 9/4, I get to join Joy Neumeyer at POWERHOUSE Arena to launch A Survivor’s Education, her gorgeous new memoir about gender violence and the contradictions of epistemic authority. Join us! powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…

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I’m always socked at how effortful and inventive men are in their pursuit of rape, and then I feel naive. Of course they would. Of course they all would.

I loved talking about Jane—the pre-Roe Chicago abortion service that performed more than 11,000 safe, illegal abortions between 1968 and 1973—with my forever favorite your friend, Dracula for You're Wrong About.... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

Very sad news. Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend, a Ugandan official says.

When people are like “interest in gender, women’s gendered pain, women’s bodies is simplistic and stupid and/or politically suspicious.” -that person is a misogynist and they will make a rightward turn. It’s as predictable as the tides.

This headline manages to reinforce several pillars of rape culture at once, one being that sexual violence is a private act and coming forward about it publicly is a transgression, another that any attempt to seek justice for sexual violence is a form of violence in itself

"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws." — Linnea Johnson This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has reportedly confiscated the cell phone of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban. An additional two phones were confiscated from a Lieutenant and a Sergeant working in Manhattan.

They should invent a click-baity literary takedown piece but about a man

Lucinda Cisler of the Redstockings in 1970: "Anyone who has spoken publicly about abortion from the feminist point of view knows all too well that it is feminism--not abortion--that is the really disturbing idea."

Men see sex as what women are for and their sexual desire—including their sexual force—as the only measure of women’s value that matters.