Lakota teen arrested in black and white
By Lori Adelman • @ladelman • 7 years ago

Daily feminist cheat sheet

Understatement of the century: “This is not going to be an easy four years.”

Speaking of the Cheeto, here’s a list of grassroots, people of color-led organizations you can donate to in order to help fight Trump’s Muslim ban.

Protests are already underway at federal courthouses across America in anticipation a Supreme Court nominee announcement tonight.

A friendly reminder that your defense of immigrants is fucking colonialist.

A Lakota teen was arrested after locking herself to pipeline construction equipment in Texas.

The Perception Institute has released a new study on explicit and implicit attitudes toward Black women’s hair.

And Sea Change reviewed over 3000 articles to figure out if and how they perpetuated stigma. Surprise: they did, including through inflammatory language, a lack of scientifically accurate information about abortion, and a dearth of firsthand stories from people who have had abortions.

Image via Two Rivers Camp.

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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