By Jos Truitt • @jostruitt • 13 years ago

What We Missed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fw3bSvQCjY

Rosa Parks wasn’t just a woman who was too tired to give up her seat on the bus on December 1, 1955. Read more about this long time activist.

The video of Zack Wahls speaking out for gay marriage is making the rounds again. Check out Chloe’s interview with Zack (also there was that time she proposed to him).

Elizabeth Warren just pulled ahead of Scott Brown in the MA Senate race, according to a new poll.

Boston, MA

Jos Truitt is Executive Director of Development at Feministing. She joined the team in July 2009, became an Editor in August 2011, and Executive Director in September 2013. She writes about a range of topics including transgender issues, abortion access, and media representation. Jos first got involved with organizing when she led a walk out against the Iraq war at her high school, the Boston Arts Academy. She was introduced to the reproductive justice movement while at Hampshire College, where she organized the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program’s annual reproductive justice conference. She has worked on the National Abortion Federation’s hotline, was a Field Organizer at Choice USA, and has volunteered as a Pro-Choice Clinic Escort. Jos has written for publications including The Guardian, Bilerico, RH Reality Check, Metro Weekly, and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken and trained at numerous national conferences and college campuses about trans issues, reproductive justice, blogging, feminism, and grassroots organizing. Jos completed her MFA in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute in Spring 2013. In her "spare time" she likes to bake and work on projects about mermaids.

Jos Truitt is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Development.

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