By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“The games have always been a little gay.”

First queer arrests in Sochi.

Trans and sex workers rights activist Monica Jones targeted by police, arrested for protesting.

Janet Mock is on the cover of MetroWeekly.

Check out Feministing staff’s activism in Policy Mic’s list of 23 feminist digital campaigns.

“Bill Cosby has done great things for the country… but he’s also an old wanker and an assaulter.”
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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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By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 6 years ago

Weekly Feminist Cheat Sheet

Another long 2017 week (only two more left!) but this one had some highs. Here is what we are reading:

Net neutrality — or safeguards preventing internet service providers to interfere with our access — was repealed this week. Here’s what comes next.

This isn’t the only instance of our government doing corporations’ bidding. The Environmental Protection Agency has fulfilled almost all major demands made by the American Petroleum Institute within its first year under Trump. And while the Administration is actively thwarting all attempts to stop climate change, this year’s Defense Authorization Act contains extensive discussion of how climate change will affect U.S. security, leading to droughts, famines, failed states and more terrorism (narrowly, of ...

Another long 2017 week (only two more left!) but this one had some highs. Here is what we are reading:

Net neutrality — or safeguards preventing internet service providers to interfere with our access — ...

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By Jess Fournier • 6 years ago

A Feminist Trans Day of Remembrance Reading List

Yesterday was Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to honoring of all those killed by transphobic violence around the world.

The day began in Boston in 1999, when friends and chosen family of murdered black trans women Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett came together to grieve and remember their friends, who had been forgotten by society and the legal system. The day has since spread around the country and the world, an opportunity for trans communities and their allies to “honor the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

Once again, 2017 is the

Yesterday was Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to honoring of all those killed by transphobic violence around the world.

The ...