By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

9/11 didn’t just shape this Muslim woman’s identity — it changed it entirely. 

After months of protest lead by the Standing Rock Sioux, the Obama administration has requested a temporary halt on construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and asked for tribal consultation in re-evaluating how large infrastructure projects like these get fast-tracked.

Native women are at the forefront of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hear from them in this video.

How New York city’s first Puerto Rican librarian brought Spanish to the city’s shelves.

A new study shows that in the six months after 9/11, Arab women were more likely to have poor birth outcomes.

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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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