Weekly Feminist Reader

Queen Bey has spoken.

This holiday season, help Just Detention International remind sexual assault survivors that they’re not alone.

There have been 26 school shootings — yes, 26, — since Sandy Hook.

A tenured professor in Colorado was forced to retire after giving a lecture on prostitution.

Beyond Eve Ensler: What should organizing against gender violence look like?

Michigan is the latest in a long line of states fucking up reproductive justice.  Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer had some strong words on the matter.

Do yourself the favor and read Ann Friedman’s Gif Guide to Getting Paid –an absolute must read for anyone who faces salary negotiations.

Can we stop with all the overanalyzing of Michelle Obama, please?

“Anorexia.. it’s an addiction, though the only one I can think of where a person is dependent on the absence of something.

A day in LGBT America.

“It would seem today’s young women are set for the post-feminist professional paradise dreamed up by our foremothers.”

Pope Francis is having an impact on the Catholic Church — see his 2013 year in review.

The Western Gaze: on photography in the two-thirds world.

“When sex workers protest their victimhood and demand full inclusion in society, we need to start listening.”

Toni Morrison and Junot Diaz chit chat about race and writing and it was phenomenal.

Ugh, sad day.  Badass organization, Queers for Economic Justice, is closing its doors.

Making microaggresssions visual: a must-see art project.

Why don’t American’s care about income inequality?

This 5-part investigative story on homelessness as a child is hard to read, but absolutely necessary.

Indian mascots do not honor indigenous people.

On “post-racial” society: “As a culture, black Americans have not been static.

“Immigration reform simply seems to be a band aid for the mass displacement my family has suffered.”

What role does NBC Universal play in Russia’s human-rights violations?

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

Brooklyn, NY

When Courtney’s not Feminst-ing, she’s chasing down couples to take their pictures for her project/movement “Queer in Public” (www.queerinpublic.tumblr.com). At all other times, she’s the Chief of Staff at The OpEd Project. She likes mountains, beer, karaoke, swimming and people watching.

When Courtney’s not Feminst-ing, she’s chasing down couples to take their pictures for her project/movement “Queer in Public” (www.queerinpublic.tumblr.com). At all other times, she’s the Chief of Staff at The OpEd Project. She likes mountains, beer, karaoke, swimming and people watching.

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