"Our backs, tell stories, no books have, the spine to, carry." -rupi kaur
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

"Our backs, tell stories, no books have, the spine to, carry." -rupi kaur

Rupi Kaur creates the most poetic images.

A white officer in Berkeley, Missouri (two miles from Ferguson) shot and killed another 18 year-old African-American boy last night.

Five comebacks for your racist relative during the holidays. Because we all have them.

Could the news that Jennifer Lawrence, one of the biggest movie stars of the moment, is being paid less than her male counterparts be the tipping point for wage disparity in Hollywood?

Thousands of people take to the streets of São Paulo, Brazil in solidarity with Ferguson and in protest of violence against Afro-Brazilians.

Why is public breast-feeding considered unsexy and inappropriate, but we normalize breasts as sexy when it comes to campaigns to fight breast cancer?

Feminism is a verb, not a trend. It takes commitment and critical thinking says Katy Kreitler.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Panama, which served as a template for US interventions around the world.

Over at Bitch, I wrote about the treatment of queer and trans folks in immigrant detention, who face higher rates of abuse at the hands of a flawed system.

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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