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By Dana Bolger • @danabolger • 8 years ago

Daily feminist cheat sheet

The piece I needed this week: “Thinking about my own dating history, some of my most fucked up relationships were with men who talked the talk.”

Why “I love giving her pleasure” is still all about him.

“I struggle with how we have to aestheticize our pain – often make it beautiful – in order for it to be taken seriously.”

Sad girl theory.

Teju Cole on San Bernardino.

Bitch Magazine on Simpson of “Jessica Jones”.

Autostraddle chose our own Alexandra’s The Feminist Utopia Project as one of its top 10 queer and feminist books of the year (right alongside Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts!).

In Very Important Feminist News, people are naming their kids after Instagram filters. Hey there, X-Pro II!

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Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and the co-founder of Know Your IX, the national youth-led organization working to end gender violence in schools. She's testified before Congress on Title IX policy and legislative reform, and her writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. She's also a student at Yale Law School, and you can find her on Twitter at @danabolger.

Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and a student at Yale Law School.

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