On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

Here’s all the news we’re reading today: 

• America’s largest mental health hospital is a jail. Here’s a harrowing look at millions of people in prisons and jails across the country have mental health problems. [The Atlantic] 

• Read this heart-breaking profile of Kalief Browder, who took his own life after spending three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. [New Yorker] 

• For media outlets to cover issues of race and policing effectively, they need to have a racially diverse crew of writers. [Neiman Reports] 

• The new Pixar movie Inside Out enters the mind of a young girl and takes a look at her emotions. Women in Hollywood talks with the film’s director, Pete Docter. [Indiewire] 

• I love this psychedelic 1970’s sex-ed comic writer Sam Meier unearthed at the Kinsey Institute. [Fusion] 

• All hail new space hero Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut who just broke an endurance record for spending 199 days in space. [NPR] 

• After a Nobel laureate said it’s hard working in science labs with women because “you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry,” female scientists around the world lampooned the idea by posting #DistractinglySexy photos of themselves at work and making new lab safety signs seen below. [Independent]