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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to reporters after dropping out of the Democratic presidential race in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 5, 2020.Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
It’s important to reckon with the role sexism played in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Source: Elizabeth Warren and the sexism factor, explained – Vox
In the run-up to Iowa, a new story threatens a shaky peace between the two leading progressive candidates.
Source: Warren, Sanders and the Question of Sexism | On the Media | WNYC Studios
An installation by designer Gaetano Pesce titled “Maestà Sofferente” (Suffering Majesty) is shown during a furniture fair in Milan, Italy, on April 7. (Luca Bruno/AP)
The sculpture by Gaetano Pesce was unveiled Sunday in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo for Milan’s furniture fair this week.
Adichie grilling Hillary Clinton at PEN America’s World Voices Festival, New York, April, 2018. Photograph:Karsten Moran/New York Times/Redux/eyevine
One of the most compelling injunctions in Adichie’s manifestos is to encourage girls to “reject likability”. “Oh my God, all that time wasted,” she says with feeling, that boys and men do not waste. Clinton and “all the harping on about whether or not she is ‘likable’,” is the perfect example of how she had to persuade friends that sexism was at work. “It is still very upsetting to me. I don’t care how much societies tell themselves that they are progressive, the kind of criticism that Clinton gets from the very progressive left, I think is terrible. People now say to her ‘shut up and go away’ – that whole idea of silencing women. I kind of like what’s happening to her now, it feels as though that ‘fuck it’ I wish she had said before, she seems to be saying now.”
One group who didn’t seem swayed by how much they found Clinton likable was black American women, 90% of whom voted for her in the election.
The bestselling author says she never wanted to become a voice for feminism, but refuses to abide by ‘language orthodoxy’
Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ | Books | The Guardian
Dr. Millett, left, listens as feminist activist Gloria Steinem speaks at a news conference in New York City in 1970. (AP)
Her 1970 tract “Sexual Politics” was a cornerstone of the women’s liberation movement.
. . . In 1970, while married to a Japanese sculptor, she was speaking at Columbia when an audience member demanded to know if Dr. Millett was a lesbian.
“Five hundred people looking at me,” Dr. Millett later wrote. “Everything pauses, faces look up in terrible silence. I hear them not breathe. That word in public, the word I waited half a lifetime to hear. Finally I am accused. ‘Say it. Say you are a Lesbian.’
Source: Kate Millett, ‘high priestess’ of second-wave feminism, dies at 82 – The Washington Post
Natile Dormer will star in The Scandalous Lady W the BBC’s latest period drama Photo: Anna Huix
Shun feminism at your peril, Natalie Dormer warns her young peers – Telegraph.