
Here’s all the feminist news on our radar today:
• Tennessee made its first arrest under a new law that makes it a crime to use drugs during pregnancy, because mothers could be “potentially harming a fetus.” [Think Progress]
• The US Department of Education granted a religious exemption to Title IX to a Christian college in Oregon so that the school would be free to deny on-campus housing to a transgender student. [PQ Monthly]
• Eleanor Bader looks at what’s included in Hillary Clinton’s memoir, Hard Choices, and what’s missing. [RH Reality Check]
• The Church of England has decided it will finally let women become bishops. [Guardian]
• The story of Jada, a 16-year-old high schooler who classmates filmed being raped at a party, is shocking and terrible. As Michelle Denise Jackson writes, “We have come to understand these stories as one of the darkest threads of our country’s cultural tapestry.” [For Harriet]
• From Donald Sterling to “Columbusing,” here are seven great comedy new routines about race. [Salon]
• Annnnnd to help you get through Monday, here is a brief discussion of common sex myths. [Vox]
What did I miss? Add what you’re reading to the comments.






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