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By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 4 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Don’t give money to the Salvation Army.

In 2014, young people organized for human rights.

“The last recourse of women who are pushed out of community on every angle is often the Internet.”

Ralph Lauren’s “genocide aesthetic.”

Chicago’s youth diversion program fails justice-involved girls.

Butchbaby & Co.: The first androgynous maternity line for queer individuals.

North Korea isn’t funny.

 

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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