Monday Reads
A few great pieces to get your week started right.
Happy Monday and welcome to Monday Reads!
From around the web:
The women leading the farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez by Chabeli Carrazana, Shefali Luthra, and Marissa Martinez in the 19th
How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights by Shoshana Walter in the Marshall Project
One Weird Trick for Being a Better Man by Kate Manne in More to Hate (Substack)
The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic. What’s Really at Stake? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus in the New Yorker
From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver by Steve Scherer in the Nation
The Death of Millennial Feminism by Helen Lewis in the Atlantic
From here and there:
Cesar Chavez and the Lie of Feminine Power
The Emptiness of Happy Endings
Happy reading!
xx Jill + Tamar
Helen Lewis’s take on Lindy West in The Atlantic bothered me, not so much for what she said about West and her book, but for the way she used West as a strawman to attack an entire generation of feminists as though they are a monolith. It reminded me of the way people used to hang Andrea Dworkin’s most extreme comments around the neck of every feminist in the 70s & 80s and attribute to us all of her particular baggage. It’s not that I believe feminists or progressives can’t be criticized, but Lewis’s characterization of millennial feminists verged on caricature. The column had the “I’m not like those other girls” feel that I remember from those days.