Last year, to celebrate International Women’s Day, we published a list of some of the best stories about women kicking ass from our decades of archives. The inspiring things we learned on that deep dive into the strong femmes of the past—not to mention the disgusting misogynistic flailings of a certain infantile new president—made it a given that we’d do it again this year. In the intervening 365 days, the Reader featured so many stories by or about amazing women (if not both!) that this list could’ve been way too long for any normal human’s attention span. Blast “Rebel Girl” and topple the patriarchy with this collection of the Reader‘s recent female-centric work.
- “Pussy Grabs Back” by Aimee Levitt
- “Queer women are shaping Chicago’s Black Lives Matter movement” by Derrick Clifton
- “A play about abortion that’s Remarkably Normal“ by Deanna Isaacs
- “The Daphne Festival sings the unsung women of electronic music” by Leor Galil
- “Good Night Out wants zero tolerance for creeps” by Lee V. Gaines
- “Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds” by Maya Dukmasova
- “What does North Lawndale really think about Riot Fest?” by Tiffany Walden and Morgan Elise Johnson
- “Chicago’s black drag queens are upholding a radical gender-bending tradition” by KT Hawbaker-Krohn and Sunshine Tucker
- “The new Ed Vrdolyak is nothing like the old one” by Ben Joravsky
- “How a DePaul English professor became an art-history sleuth” by Janet Potter
- “Women of color call the shots in the Chicago-based webseries Brown Girls“ by Brianna Wellen
- “Catching a buzz without the booze at Chicago’s first kava bar” by Julia Thiel
- “At Profiles the drama—and abuse—is real” by Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt
- “Full Spectrum Features brings diverse voices to the forefront of Chicago’s independent film scene” by Leah Pickett
- “A peek into the Area 51 of pot” by Lee V. Gaines
- “Illinois Coal’s last stand” by Kari Lydersen
- “Sonali Dev’s Bollywood happily ever afters” by Aimee Levitt
- “The MCA’s ‘Riot Grrrls’ brings the art girls to the forefront” by Brianna Wellen
- “Advice from Angela Davis in the aftermath of the election” by Maya Dukmasova