6 Accomplished Women Who Don’t Want To Be Called Feminists

• Six accomplished women who don’t want to be called feminists. [The Jane Dough]
• A feminist guide to horror movies (two different takes!). [Ms. Magazine, Bitch Magazine]
• States’ efforts to defund Planned Parenthood are mostly failing. [Think Progress]
• Conservatives think everyone complaining about the “war on women” should just stop whining so much. [Slate] 
• Plans in Queens, New York, to create a memorial and rename streets for Japanese “comfort women” are proving controversial. [New York Daily News]
• How to talk to the lovable but misguided sexist in your life. [xoJane]
• Gettin’ all philosophical about theology and rape. [The New Yorker]
• Meet Rochelle Ballantyne, a 17-year-old girl from Brooklyn who is conquering the world of chess. [Clutch Magazine]

INTERNATIONAL

• A women’s rights activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo says he eluded an assassination attempt. [New York Times]
• If you never saw “Good Hair,” here’s everything you want to know about the hair trade. [Guardian UK]
• Meet Soosan Firooz, Afghanistan’s first female rapper. [BBC]