By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Tiarah Poyau, a 22-year-old graduate student, was killed during the NYC West Indian carnival after telling a man to stop grinding against her. 

In case you missed it, Ben Fields, the school resource officer who violently arrested a Black teenage girl at Spring Valley High School, will not be charged.

In a nod to Colin Kaepernick, U.S. women’s national soccer team player Megan Rapine takes a knee during the National Anthem.

Bomba Estéreo’s “Soy Yo” video is an ode to little brown girls everywhere.

Women human rights defenders often face violence and threats for their work. This online art campaign features their stories.

Bejan Matur and Maram al-Masri, a Syrian and Kurdish poet respectively, tell stories of chaos, carnage, and the civilians left behind to pick up the pieces.

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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