A love letter written to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford signed by Tarana Burke, Amanda de Cadenet, Glennon Doyle, Tracee Ellis Ross, and America Ferrera (Photo credit: Instagram)
TODAY’S MUST-READ NEWS AND ANALYSIS
- A #MeToo retrospective: What women’s speech is still not allowed to do. [The New Yorker]
- New North Dakota voter ID law might hurt reelection chances of Heidi Heitkamp, the most vulnerable Democratic senator. [Mother Jones]
- Major climate report warns of potential food shortages, wildfires, and massive coral reef death by as early as 2040. [The New York Times]
- The cost of male power is female pain. [Medium]
- Officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted of the murder of Laquan McDonald, but it’s not enough. [Buzzfeed News]
- Teenage Instagram users are being targeted by their peers with “hate accounts.” [The Atlantic]
- Tarana Burke’s letter to Christine Blasey Ford: “We witnessed you show up for duty not as a superhero, but as a fully human woman.” [Huffpost]
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YESTERDAY FROM BITCH
- Inventing Adulthood: Four Novels Reveal the Magic of Queer Self-Actualization | What does it mean to come of age as a 20-something queer person with no money, no resources, and no illusions about respectability? [Sara Gregory]
- BitchReads: 15 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read this Fall | In tumultuous political and social times, I turn to nonfiction books. [Evette Dionne]
