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TODAY’S MUST-READ NEWS AND ANALYSIS
- From the brilliant writer Joshunda Sanders: What it’s like to be Black in Austin. [The New York Times]
- The Maryland school shooter followed a typical pattern that mainstream media often fails to amplify: He was going after an ex-girlfriend. [NBC News]
- On what it’s link to watch #MeToo when it’s you, too. [FiveThirtyEight]
- LENA WAITHE IS CHANGING THE GAME. [Vanity Fair]
- This is a must-read on the functional, unifying power of the phrase “women and femmes”. [B.B. Buchanan]
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Yesterday’s Must-Reads
- In the world of Jessica Jones, only white women are able to navigate pain without being defined by it, which sharply departs from the show’s insistence on being empowering for all women. Cameron Glover
- The exploitation of NCAA athletes should take the fun out of March Madness Britni de la Cretaz
- The traits we love in many male heroes—their complexity, their confidence, their occasional bouts of selfish whim—become, in female heroes, marks of the dreaded “unlikable character.” Kameron Hurley
