By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

On “the rehabilitation of George W. Bush” (he’s still responsible for the murder of a million Iraqis — no matter how many hugs he gets from Michelle Obama).

Tishaura Jones lost by 888 votes in St. Louis’ mayoral race this week. In response to her incredible race — and frustrating defeat, folks are discussing the role Black men played in stopping her from becoming mayor? 

Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill “takes women back to a time when they weren’t separate persons from their husbands”.

The No More Challenge kicked off this week, a competition to award over $150,000 to organizations fighting gender violence. With abusers in literally every office in this country, this work is more important than ever. Donate to the challenge today (my favorite? the Know Your IX team!)

Kickstarter’s hosting it’s Art + Feminism Wikipedia Editathon this Sunday. New York friends, meet up on March 12th – from 10AM to 5PM — at Kickstarter HG.

My friend Tabia posed the question “If 2017 were a poem, what would you title it?” to 34 writers. Here is what they said.

My friend Josh (I am blessed with wonderful, rad writers as friends!) is the featured poet in Issue 52 of tenderloin. Check out his art.

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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