A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.

ARETHA FRANKLIN, PEPPER ANN, & WHITE MOTHERHOOD

FEATURES & LONG READS

Aretha Franklin Was More Than Just A Great Voice by Tomi Obaro

The Clairvoyance of a Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin by Doreen St. Felix

I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment by Kelly Marie Tran

The Doctor Doesn't Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To by Ashley Fetters

I Shouldn’t Have To Lose Weight For My Wedding. So Why Do I Feel Like A Failure? by Scaachi Koul

'Pepper Ann' Was the Most Underrated Feminist Cartoon of the 90s by Chloe Schildhause

What Happened to Home Economics?: The Rise and Fall of a Contested Discipline by Christen McCurdy

Evangelical Purity Culture Taught Me to Rationalize My Sexual Assault by Becca Andrews 

The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World by Liz Bowen

Her stories: Fictional utopias of 19th century women by Liza Daly

It Shouldn't Be This Hard for a Woman in a Wheelchair to Get a Pedicure by Madison Lawson

Trial by Fire by Molly Crabapple

Intersex People Want to End Nonconsensual Surgeries. A California Resolution Is Their ‘Warning Shot.’ by Amy Littlefield

In the Trump Administration, Motherhood Is a Tool of White Supremacy by Megan Reynolds

How a Woman Disappears from the History Books by Kashmir Hill

How to make the Team USA women’s baseball team by Natalie Weiner

Football Won't Turn Boys Into Men by Jessica Luther