A mural with the Puerto Rican flag as background and a Heroina in the foreground
By Lori Adelman • @ladelman • 7 years ago

Daily feminist cheat sheet

Baltimore County police shot and killed Korryn Gaines — and a 5-year-old was caught in the crossfire.

Trump is [still] the goddamn victim-blaming worst.

How do race, class, geography, sexuality, gender identity, and other experiences impact how we talk about and experience abortion? The National Network of Abortion Funds has just launched a new program to find out.

A new mural in Newark remembers Las Heroinas, the Puerto Rican feministas considered heroines for their political activism.

Read Janet Mock on the trans and queer community of Christopher Street.

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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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