Here’s what The Riveter’s editorial team has been reading this week.

by The Editors

1. “A Woman’s Place is Running the Kitchen” by Marnie Hanel 

The New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2014

For those of us who read Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter, this profile of Barbara Lynch and the female chefs she considers her protégés gives a delicious spin on the facts that are hard to swallow: “only 12 percent of the winners of the James Beard award for Outstanding Chef and 16 percent of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs have been women.”

( See also: Cherry Bombe)

2. “A Poem a Day for National Poetry Month: “Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls,” by Jia Tolentino

Hairpin, April 2, 2014

Because we have a sense of humor and boners for Tim Riggins.

3. “Dear Harvard, You Win,” by Anonymous

The Harvard Crimson

Published four days ago this anonymous letter to the editor is a good reminder that journalism and a willingness to bear witness to personal pain can enact broad change… hopefully.

4. “Young Native Girls are Being Sacrificed to the Canadian Sex Trade,” by Martha Troian

Vice, April 2, 2014

This excerpt says it all: “(Kimmy) is just one of many young girls in Canada’s native population who are being exploited—or trafficked. But it isn’t just pimps, johns, or gangs who are doing the trafficking. Increasingly, it can be the girls’ own family members and relatives, and it’s taking place in aboriginal communities, or in towns and cities, across the country.”

See also: “My Mom Sold my Virginity” by Abigail Haworth in Marie Claire, April 2014

5. “Building the Next Pixar” by Evie Nagy

Fast Company, March 26, 2014

Evie Nagy explores some of the creative genius behind Pixar for Fast Company. There are so many proper nouns in that sentence that we love.