By Jos Truitt • @jostruitt • 12 years ago

What We Missed

James Baldwin and Lorrain Hansberry dancing

This image of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry has been making its way around the internets lately. It is everything.

“Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.” #science

Badass students protesting the handling of the Trayvon Martin case closed down the Sanford Police Department.

Gloria Allred shifts the conversation around trans inclusion in Miss Universe Canada to Donald Trump’s genitals. I like the awkward re-focusing on a cisgender person’s crotch.

Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses.

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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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