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The NFL’s plan to protect America from witches | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The NFL’s cheerleader problem shows exactly what’s wrong with the league’s management: They insist on being the self-appointed guardians of America’s mythological vision of itself

Amazing piece of writing about feminism in the context of the NFL...

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We Must Reckon with the Terrible Realities Hidden in Plain Sight

There is great hope in the public revelation of truths and microaggressions previously too subtle to name.

We just opened ms. estrada, and I don’t usually keep posting articles and links once a show has opened, but I keep reading pieces every day that resonate with our show.  And this essay is such a beautifully written, vivid, clear explanation of facing up to the things that we (women) ignore every day in order to just function in our lives and in our world. 

I sometimes feel a little odd about posting these kinds of serious essays in relation to our very, very funny irreverent show, but then again, comedy can be a way of speaking truth to power, and of bypassing some of the preconceived notions that we have that prevent us from seeing the water.

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This is so ms. estrada that I can’t believe it wasn’t written by someone involved in our show.

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ms. estrada is to some extent about what kind of place Acropolis University, the college where the story takes place, should be. Scholarly or competitive? Masculine or feminine? Patriarchal or feminist? This article is a fascinating investigation of the history of the university and the study of the humanities and gets at some of these same ideas and issues.

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One of our cast members, Jenna, who plays an actual Women’s Studies professor in ms. estrada, sent me this article about the different views of feminism between today’s college students and their parents’ generation, which is one of the points of tension in the story of ms. estrada, as Liz, tries to create her own, new movement.

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GUEST ROOM | Disaffiliating is Not Enough

After reading Ara Hagopian’s recent column titled “Don’t Decry the Greek System if You Use It for Your Own Gain,” I felt a flush of emotion: anger, sadness, shame and, ultimately, an overarching se…

A great op-ed from a student at Cornell University about Greek Life and power, which our show really grapples with.  Shared with me by Marguerite, a member of our cast.