What I read today - Oct 31
- These Beauty Pageant Contestants Gave Out Facts About Women's Rights As Their Measurements, Buzzfeed News
- What It's Like to Grow Up with Elite Neo-Nazis, Vice
- When a Drowned Woman’s Face Became the Muse of Paris, hyperallergic
- Tomi Lahren’s Disrespectful Flag Costume Highlights the Hypocrisy of Whiteness, The Root
- Why Conservatives Blame Poverty on the Poor, New Republic
- The White-Minstrel Show, National Review
- Chicago Designer Offers a Model for Repurposing Closed Public Schools, Next City
- Multiple Deaths Reported as Driver Careens Down Bike Path in Manhattan, NYTimes
I have a friend from college who is an artist and keeps referring to her work as "witchy." It irks me because I don't feel like she's a practicing witch, or someone even knowledgeable about witchcraft. Also, timely, because Halloween.
- The Real Reason Women Love Witches, The Establishment
- Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft, The Guardian
- The Spiral Dance, Wikipedia
- Women Artists Are Channeling The Magic Of The Feminine Occult, HuffPost
- Hysteria, Witches and the Wandering Uterus: A Brief History -- Or Why I Teach "The Yellow Wallpaper", KCET