On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

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On Our Radar: Thursday, July 14th

• This video of celebrities listing #23Ways you could be killed in America if you are Black is incredible, haunting, and a must-see. [Mic]

• Ballerina heroine Misty Copeland is going to be in Disney’s live-action The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as lead ballerina. [The Mary Sue]

• Ew, Forever 21. [Cosmopolitan]

• Kate McKinnon is a “pansexual beast,” but we can’t talk about whether her character in Ghostbusters is queer? [The Daily Beast]

• This is brilliant: Folks are changing their names to #BlackLivesMatter when they order at Starbucks. [Clutch]

• Aztec dancers joined a #BlackLivesMatter protest in Minnesota, and the photographs are so beautiful and powerful. [Remezcla]

• So much congrats to Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress! [Time]

Here’s what we published yesterday at Bitch!

• “The Pulse shooting was everything I feared when I worked in a Florida gay bar. But we won’t cave to violence.”

• In a new Some of Us Are Brave column: Black people are fed up. But privilege dictates that we will keep dying until white America is fed up, too.

• Love Between the Covers highlights a community that’s often unfairly maligned.