Melania and Michelle split screen
By Lori Adelman • @ladelman • 7 years ago

Daily feminist cheat sheet

Parts of Melania Trump’s speech Monday matched nearly word-for-word with Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech. Why this is more than a gaffe – it’s racism. And how the response to this plagiarism has embodied white privilege.

New emojis from Google will have more women depicted in professional roles.

After the murder of Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch in an apparent “honor killing, taking a closer look at this global problem. And in more awfulness, in Afghanistan, one father is on a quest for justice after his pregnant 14-year-old daughter was burned to death by her in-laws.

At the International AIDS Conference, making sure we don’t leave behind women and girls of color.

Brooklyn, NY

Lori Adelman started blogging with Feministing in 2008, and now runs partnerships and strategy as a co-Executive Director. She is also the Director of Youth Engagement at Women Deliver, where she promotes meaningful youth engagement in international development efforts, including through running the award-winning Women Deliver Young Leaders Program. Lori was formerly the Director of Global Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and has also worked at the United Nations Foundation on the Secretary-General's flagship Every Woman Every Child initiative, and at the International Women’s Health Coalition and Human Rights Watch. As a leading voice on women’s rights issues, Lori frequently consults, speaks and publishes on feminism, activism and movement-building. A graduate of Harvard University, Lori has been named to The Root 100 list of the most influential African Americans in the United States, and to Forbes Magazine‘s list of the “30 Under 30” successful mediamakers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Lori Adelman is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Partnerships.

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