By Lori Adelman • @ladelman • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Police confronted women in New Delhi on Sunday who were protesting the rape of a 5-year-old girl.

Police confronted women in New Delhi on Sunday who were protesting the rape of a 5-year-old girl. Manish Swarup/Associated Press. Via.

Horrible. New protests in India after the rape of a 5 year old.

France is set to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, while homophobic violence is on the rise.

Is feminism on life support “with a DNR scrawled on its Botoxed brow”? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar thinks so.

The Feminist Wire is hosting a forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within feminism. Two we like: “The Tragedy of a Failed Politic” and “You Become an Anti-Racist Feminist”.

Recaps Magazine has a new issue out.

“Instead of dividing into two groups, men and women overlapped considerably on attributes like the frequency of science-related activities, interest in casual sex, or the allure of a potential mate’s virginity.” We’re trying our best not to say “we told you so” but this article is making it realllyyyyy hard.

Chloe on the revolutionary power of the song “I Touch Myself”.

Chi Mgbako has a great piece on today’s oral arguments at the US Supreme Court on the anti-prostitution pledge in PEPFAR.

Infuriating: the Steubenville football coach who allegedly covered up a rape got a contract extension.

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Lori Adelman started blogging with Feministing in 2008, and now runs partnerships and strategy as a co-Executive Director. She is also the Director of Youth Engagement at Women Deliver, where she promotes meaningful youth engagement in international development efforts, including through running the award-winning Women Deliver Young Leaders Program. Lori was formerly the Director of Global Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and has also worked at the United Nations Foundation on the Secretary-General's flagship Every Woman Every Child initiative, and at the International Women’s Health Coalition and Human Rights Watch. As a leading voice on women’s rights issues, Lori frequently consults, speaks and publishes on feminism, activism and movement-building. A graduate of Harvard University, Lori has been named to The Root 100 list of the most influential African Americans in the United States, and to Forbes Magazine‘s list of the “30 Under 30” successful mediamakers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Lori Adelman is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Partnerships.

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