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By Dana Bolger • @danabolger • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Happy birthday, Angela Davis! Celebrate by checking out her writing and interviews.

Good news: Monica Jones‘ conviction was overturned.

“We all felt trapped”: MOOCs, sexual harassment, and Title IX.

Legislators claiming to act on survivors’ behalf aren’t listening to survivors.

Occupy the syllabus.

ICYMI, 1000 New York airport workers occupied the 94th Street bridge to LaGuardia Airport, demanding higher pay, paid sick days, affordable health care, and a paid holiday for MLK Day.

Asam Ahmad at Youngist on Leelah Alcorn and whiteness: “Paying attention to who gets front page coverage of their grief, whose life is counted as grievable, and whose life is even ‘worth’ grieving publicly helps illuminate which deaths remain invisible and which lives are rendered ungrievable altogether.”

Over at Dissent, a new Belabored podcast.

”Without Hermione, The Boy Who Lived would be dead as shit.”

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Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and the co-founder of Know Your IX, the national youth-led organization working to end gender violence in schools. She's testified before Congress on Title IX policy and legislative reform, and her writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. She's also a student at Yale Law School, and you can find her on Twitter at @danabolger.

Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and a student at Yale Law School.

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