By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

UltraViolet has a campaign out about the strip searches and mistreatment Native women have experienced when arrested and jailed at Standing Rock.

Check out this video from Dallas Goldtooth to see the vehicles and sound weapons the government are using on water protecters.
Police are now moving in on protestors who had set up camp in the pipeline’s path and were blocking the road.
Check out this (pretty scary) video with We Are Mitu on the night of racism and cultural appropriation that is Halloween.
Read Alexandra’s piece, “Don’t Use Girls as Props to Fight Trans Rights,” over at The New York Times.

Mahroh is a community organizer and law student who believes in building a world where black and brown women and our communities are able to live free of violence. Prior to law school, Mahroh was the Executive Director of Know Your IX, a national survivor- and youth-led organization empowering students to end gender violence and a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research addresses the ways militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact communities of color transnationally.

Mahroh is currently at Harvard Law School, organizing against state and gender-based violence.

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