An excerpt from “Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different” (August 2020), by Linda Selin Davis:
“When each tomboy heyday ended, childhood became gendered as never before.”
“Resist Everything Except Temptation”: Anarchism in Art
“Resist Everything but Temptation” analyzes Oscar Wilde’s anarchist philosphies and offers a way of framing creative work that can lead us to its more conscious political use.
“Vote! The Podcast” Shows We Have Strength in Numbers
With less than 100 days until the 2020 Presidential Election, many voters are at a loss for what voting will look like in November.
Here to answer all of our most pressing voting questions are Andrea Hailey and Kat Calvin, hosts of the new podcast: “Vote!”
“Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote” Has Grave Warning for November Election
As the 2020 Presidential Election grows closer day by day, it is essential to stay informed about methods of voter suppression. The short film “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote” highlights these unconstitutional issues in great detail, by documenting with thorough statistics and interviews examples of voters being stifled.
“We cannot lose focus on protecting the right to vote.”
Oshun Energy in Beyoncé’s “Black is King”
We are certainly entering a new era when Beyoncé, our most celebrated Black pop star, can access a dominant worldwide corporation like Disney—responsible for some of the most troubling anti-Black representations for nearly a century—and utilize its platform to correct our image and offer us a grand, divine mirror to see ourselves anew. “Black is King” is Oshun’s mirror by way of Beyoncé’s artistic vision.
Author Morgan Jerkins Explores her Family History in “Wandering in Strange Lands”
Following the release of her 2018 New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins hits another home run with Wandering in Strange Lands, leaving her readers asking new questions about the world in which we live.
August 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us
As we reach the dog days of summer—a summer of challenge and change—you may be reading more. Some of the 31 books I’ve included may have slipped under your radar. You’re sure to find something of interest, so which will you read?
Feminist Lens: Zahra Rasool, Naima Ramos-Chapman and Immersive AR/VR Installation “Still Here”
Produced by Al Jazeera Contrast, and created by Zahra Rasool, Sarah Springer and VR 360 writer and director Naima Ramos-Chapman, “Still Here” meditates on the prison industrial complex, urban gentrification and the experience of formerly incarcerated women.
We Heart: Jon Hamm Talks Fatherhood, Feminism and Flipping Stereotypes
The New Yorker released a short film in which Jon Hamm voices an enlightened father who encourages his daughter to navigate the ever-daunting dating world and cultivate her own emotional growth.
The clever film flips a stereotypes on its head and encourages fathers to treat their daughters with healthy emotional boundaries.
Star-Studded Indigenous Graduation Ceremony Honors 2020 Graduates
Navajo Nation-focused organization, Protect the Sacred, hosted a virtual graduation ceremony for the indigenous graduates of 2020— celebrating their accomplishments and encouraging them in the next chapter of their adult lives to participate in civic opportunities, such as completing the census and registering to vote.