With two federal leaders proposing banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies, it’s a good time to look back at this article from GUTS Magazine on the long history of white men making an issue out of the niqab in order to reinforce colonialist systems.
Nancy Meyers’ new movie The Intern, at first glance, appears to flip the social scripts for gender and age, but as Melissa Silverstein writes at Women and Hollywood, its messages are somewhat contradictory.