Daily Tar Heel
By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Daily Tar Heel

UNC student paper The Daily Tar Heel takes a stand against campus sexual violence.

The Princeton alum who wants students to get their MRSs ASAP is just digging herself deeper and deeper.

“Withholding war-raped women the right to safe abortion is a form of violence.”

Towson University’s White Student Union is terrifying.

Men need to be allies against sexual violence.

On Easter, Google honored a man who worked to help the poor and the hungry, and some Christians got really angry because he wasn’t Jesus.

Obama proclaims April National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

Why Ashley Judd isn’t running.

Silence isn’t sexy.

Mazel tov if you want to and can get married young, but I’m cool being single at 23, thanks.

Let’s spice science class up with a fun rape analogy!

The WMC has a nice piece about Girls Write Now.

Rep. Mark Salmon’s son came out, but the Republican from Arizona, unlike Sen. Rob Portman, hasn’t changed his mind on same-sex marriage.

In other news from everyone’s favorite state, Arizona: The House Panel passed a”bathroom bill” that discriminates against trans* and gender queer people.

Finally, some good news about women in journalism: the gender distribution of National Magazine Award nominations is even.

Success for the Sandbergs and Slaughters of the world isn’t enough; feminism is failing working-class women.

Fifty shades of feminism.

In honor of April Fools’ Day, celebrate Albert Einstein, father and chili chef!

Yeah.

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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