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By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Misty Copeland talks being unapologetically Black.

In an excerpt from her latest book, Sen. Claire McCaskill talks helping infamous Todd Akin win in the Missouri primaries, in order to beat him in the elections.

Nat. Brut decided to ask a handful of well known feminists who inspire them (including the team here!) to share other inclusive feminists who inspire us. There are countless emerging feminist game-changers — but here are 12 really incredible ones in media, journalism, & the arts.

The publishing industry has a gender bias that desperately needs addressing.

Ew, Jonathan Franzen stop.

New findings show that on nearly every social indicator of well-being — from income and earnings to obesity and food security — Black women, girls and children in the rural South rank low or last.

Shade Schuler is the 13th transgender woman of color murdered in the US this year, eclipsing the total from all of 2014.

A daily action step: join the ACLU in telling DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Loretta Lynch that Black Lives Matter activists have a right to speak, organize, and protest without surveillance.

Mahroh is a community organizer and law student who believes in building a world where black and brown women and our communities are able to live free of violence. Prior to law school, Mahroh was the Executive Director of Know Your IX, a national survivor- and youth-led organization empowering students to end gender violence and a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research addresses the ways militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact communities of color transnationally.

Mahroh is currently at Harvard Law School, organizing against state and gender-based violence.

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