The Weekly Feminist News Mashup

  • An email discouraging Yale students from wearing offensive (i.e., anything that degrades a marginalized group) costumes for Halloween has snowballed and has morphed into a controversial fight over the right of free speech.

  • Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language, and she is creating the very first Wukchumni dictionary.

  • Nellie Bly, the reporter who exposed the true conditions of 19th century asylums, finally has her own movie and it opens everywhere on November 20th.