By Syreeta McFadden • @reetamac • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Here’s an explanation of how the awful #LiberalTips2AvoidRape hashtag came to be.

Today in Egyptian women’s history, the storming of parliament for the right to vote in 1951.

Fifty years after the Feminine Mystique, what should the feminist movement be focusing on now?

Thanks to Scott Walker’s cuts to women’s health funding, Planned Parenthood will have to close four of its rural clinics. None of them even provide abortion services.

Yay for quality sex education!

Thomas Page McBee writes about being approached by a marketing company hoping to use his masculinity expertise to sell grooming products to men.

No, Gawker, we don’t need to see a “full, clear shot” of a pregnant Beyonce.

SYREETA MCFADDEN is a Brooklyn based writer, photographer and adjunct professor of English. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches and Storyscape Journal. She is the managing editor of the online literary magazine, Union Station, and a co-curator of Poets in Unexpected Places. You can follow her on Twitter @reetamac.

Syreeta McFadden is a contributing opinion writer for The Guardian US and an editor of Union Station Magazine.

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