By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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LAPD tried to cover up assault charges against police officers.

Woman goes undercover to show how men react to street harassment. (Please help me figure out what to feel about that in the comments.)

Paula Deen continues to be the worst boss ever.

Samsung: Women are tech-incompetent housewives who only know how to play with children’s toys…

… unless they’re booth babes.

Alexandra Brodsky

Washington, DC

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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