By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 10 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Patrick Stewart answers a fan’s unexpected question.

Sex workers engage in democratic political processes. Duh.

It’s not just Facebook that has an online hate speech problem.

Donate to Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Jessica writes about #FBrape as a potential feminist tipping point at The Nation.

A letter to the President on the anniversary of Dr. Tiller’s murder.

Bye, Bachmann.

A victim of the New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting will celebrate his 11th birthday in style.

Could you use support on the anniversary of your assault?

TV loves dead teenage girls.

Do Disney Princess movies pass the Bechdel test?

“What does it say about pride parade events that lesbians and transgender individuals need an additional march to feel visible?”

How to be a victim.

Our politics can’t be risk averse.

Intersectional anti-oppression activism isn’t an academic exercise.

Let’s abandon our intersectional “ultra-feminism” for Michelin feminism.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America just elected its first gay bishop.

Anonymous wants to teach rape prevention in schools.

Queens of pop performed in support of women’s empowerment.

A Japanese court has ruled that spouses must use the same surname–which almost always means the man’s.

Tan, wet, happy, and fat.

The first shelter to allow domestic violence victims to bring their pets opened yesterday.

Celebrate Pussy Riot.

Sheryl Sandburg should have spoken up about #FBrape.

Could Michelle Obama help end colorism in Hollywood?

Will Governor Brown of California finally sign the Domestic Worker’s Build of Rights?

Incomplete reporting on This American Life perpetuated dangerous myths about Social Security disability programs.

What have you been reading/writing/watching/listening to this week?

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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