Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
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The Survivor: A Conversation With M.I.A, by Alex Frank, Pitchfork
“I was like, “I know that I should stab you, and you probably still want to stab me, but if we get on, that’s actually quite a cool thing. And I just gotta believe in that thing. I don’t want to take bitterness to the grave and hate you.’”
#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism, by Daniel Penny, The Boston Review
“What makes Milo so vexing to the left and successful among young people on the right is the way he manages to utilize his “deviant” sexuality as a political asset rather than a liability. Milo’s rhetorical and aesthetic strategies are manifold: he adopts the argot of science and history in support of his claims about the supremacy of Western culture, but simultaneously asserts that we live in a “post-fact world.”’
How Far Have We Come? Attending the Women's March as a Trans Woman, by Diana Tourjee, Broadly
“‘As the intersectional feminists have been reminding us all for decades, 'woman' is never a sufficient category for encompassing or analyzing women's oppression," Stryker wrote to me. "Trans issues bring this point powerfully into the foreground, in that some trans women need things that are not usually considered 'women's' needs, and some trans men need things that usually are."
"Cis-privilege in feminism has not been fully dislodged," she explained. "Really taking trans issues to heart transforms feminism, just as really taking race or ability or class to heart transforms feminism. It makes it bigger."
Killing of a Young Woman Grips Iceland, by Dan Bilefsky and Egill Bjarnason, The New York Times
“Most murder cases in Iceland are not mysteries — the victims and their killers usually know each other, the murderer rarely seeks to cover up the crime, and cases are usually solved quickly,” Mr. Gunnlaugsson said. He added: “Foreign involvement is almost unheard-of. The reaction would be different if the suspects would’ve been two Icelandic boys.”
‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages, by Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post
“Most of the time, when he speaks he seems not to know quite where he’s going,” Viennot said. “It’s as if he had thematic clouds in his head that he would pick from with no need of a logical thread to link them.”