By Verónica Bayetti Flores • @veroconplatanos • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

By Vero and Maya

Happy Galentine’s Day!

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It's only the best day of the year!

(Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls hosted a Galentine’s Day hangout, which you can see here if you missed it.)

Alexandra on hating sexual violence and hating prisons at the same time and the danger of criminalizing college responses to sexual violence.

In These Times hosted a roundtable on trans media representation, featuring our own Katherine and Jos, along with Emily McAvan.

“Dudes, listen: if you’re treating female rap fans as though they’re legendary and precious wifey-shaped jewels, you need to chill.”

Looks like Katy Perry‘s gunning for Gwen Stefani’s long-held Cultural Appropriation Queen crown!

“Online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists.” Good to know.

Five reasons you should be watching Comedy Central’s “Broad City.”

Facebook unveils about 50 new gender options.

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Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants' rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She loves cooking, making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued. In addition to writing for Feministing, she is currently spending most of her time doing policy work to reduce the harms of LGBTQ youth of color's interactions with the police and making sure abortion care is accessible to all regardless of their income.

Verónica is a queer immigrant writer, activist, and rabble-rouser.

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