By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 11 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

“Farah Goes Bang.”

Dare to hope again: on incarceration and parenting.

Paternity leave isn’t just about fathers.

Reclaiming indigenous papahood.

Blast from the very recent past: the Great Dad.

Listen to a panel on labor and feminism moderated by Sarah Jaffe.

RAINN praised the recent SCOTUS decision on DNA collection, but how will it affect people of color?

A single bill could nearly eliminate abortion access in Texas.

Will the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalize sex work?

Protect the “Rape Factory.”

Sorry, but Daenerys = Laura Bush.

Get ready for the debut of Jose Antonio Vargas’s “Documented.”

Celebrate 50 years of women in space.

Check out the trailer for QTPOC Chat at Black Girl Dangerous.

Pro-tips for young academics.

Iranian women shared their concerns in the lead-up to the (now concluded) presidential election.

The problem with “Devious Maids” goes beyond Hollywood.

Can a beauty editor be a feminist?

Welcome back to campus, serial rapists.

Let’s talk about the intersections of domestic violence and mass shootings.

Wisconsin protesters won’t tolerate state-sanctioned rape.

Confusing the medium for the message.

Researchers at the Boston Children’s Hospital claim to have identified the cause of Type 1 diabetes!

David Brooks: the last Stalinist.

Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed an equal pay bill.

How dare anyone study porn!

Camille Paglia <3<3<3 Joan Rivers (???)

Nothing spells hilarity like bigoted slurs and the U.S. Postal Service.

Is Man of Steel a feminist film?

No, not really.

THE DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER IS COMING.

What have you been reading/writing/watching/listening to this week?

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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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