The Collection: Life and Dystopia
Week of April 23–29
A Woman Who Made the World Better by Ann Corkery | Real Clear Politics
Conservative women lost one of our own this week.
Second Lady Karen Pence Opens Up About Her Struggles With Infertility by Melissa Langsam Branstein | The Federalist
Mrs. Pence primarily grants interviews about art therapy — her major initiative as Second Lady — but she graciously made an exception, because as Mrs. Pence remarked during our phone interview, “Any way I can help young women who are having this same issue, I’m glad to.”
Embracing the Seasons of our Lives, an interview with Cheryl Bachelder by Laura Vanderkam | Verily
#Wife #GirlMom #CEO
Gwyneth Paltrow Shouldn’t Be Your Source for Science by Julie Gunlock | Acculturated
Surrounded by paid-for-friends (hair dressers, stylists, publicists, spouses), self-doubt is in short supply.
Tampon Taxes by Nicole Kaeding | Tax Foundation
A study of state sales tax regimes for female sanitary products
Wendy Davis Raising Money to Train Students to “storm the Texas capital” by Kemberlee Kaye | Legal Insurrection
The training took place at the Ann Richards School.
Human Trafficking in Plain Sight by Nicole Fisher | Forbes
It’s not just in someone else’s neighborhood
Variations on a Theme: “The Handmaid’s Tale”
No, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Not ‘Unexpectedly Timely’ by Megan McArdle | Bloomberg
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Is About Fundamentalism by Gracy Olmstead | The Federalist
The Handmaid’s Hysteria by Heather Wilhelm | National Review
Fable for the Age of Trump? Well, no. by Cathy Young | Newsday
A Long Look (one related to The Handmaid’s Tale)
The Mother-Free Money Tree by Alana S. Newman | Public Discourse
The road to wealth is paved with Lupron and placenta.
Video
Where the “primary fence” ends Kelsey Harkness talks with Genevieve Wood about her visit to the US border outside of San Diego | Daily Signal
From the magazine
Men are Still Pigs: The politicization of domestic violence by Trudy W. Schuett
When “Natural” Becomes Conservative Territory by Georgi Boorman
Sisterhood Powergrab by EdgeOfTheSandbox
Berlin on Strawberry Creek: Memories of Berkeley by EdgeOfTheSandbox
A Quick Note About Custody by Leslie Loftis
“Fearless Girl” is a Troll by EdgeOfTheSandbox
A note from Leslie
While we lost one of our own with the passing of Kate O’Beirne, another welcomed a new baby…in an auto shop parking lot on the way to the hospital.
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Image is of Faye Dunaway as Serena Joy in the 1990 version of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which I think is better than the new one.
