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FKA Twigs on femininity, respecting dancers, and pretending to give birth.

New report from Grassroots Leadership: Payoff: How Congress Ensures Private Prison Profit with an Immigrant Detention Quota.

Repro justice advocates are done playing defense.

NYT reviews Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

Former Reed College student who made headlines for protesting his professor’s decision to remove him from class was arrested for sex abuse, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

This week Obama nominated Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Wilhelmina Wright for federal judge seat. If confirmed, Wilhelmina will be the second black woman to serve as a federal judge.

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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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