Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

By Mychal and Maya

A pro-choice protest song by North Carolina Love Music Army, inspired by the state’s Moral Monday protests. Via Bitch.

The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Massachusetts’s buffer zone around abortion clinics. Here are 12 horror stories that show why buffer zones are important and some thoughts from clinic workers on the subject.

This GOP Congressional candidate doesn’t think spousal rape should be a crime, and more heinous things.

The crisis in black and brown youth unemployment. 

Zerlina took Politico’s Dylan Byers to task over his unexamined privilege. 

“While Downton’s plot twist was more cynically deployed than Scandal’s, both shows exploited the drama of rape instead of exploring the realities of it.” Jaclyn Friedman on TV’s depictions of rape. 

“The biggest travesty is that Pope Francis continues his misogynist and heterosexist non-inclusive notion of ‘justice,’ right alongside the critique of capitalism.”

18 million Rising and #NotYourAsianSidekick are hosting an online public forum tomorrow morning. RSVP here.

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, as well as columnist for Feministing.com and Salon. As a freelance writer, social commentator, and mental health advocate his work has been seen online in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Al Jazeera English, Gawker, The Guardian, Ebony.com, Huffington Post, The Root, and The Grio.

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, as well as columnist for Feministing.com and Salon.

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