By Dana Bolger • @danabolger • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Over at The Nation, Victoria Law asks, “In a country that claims to care about women and ending violence against women, why does our legal system mimic the tactics of abusers?”

The two Tallahassee police officers who tased an unarmed black woman last September are (finally) being suspended without pay.

A new survey out about civility policing in higher ed.

(Un)productivity in the Digital Age.

Old but good: the wonderful Meghna Sridhar wrote a love letter to anxious ladies. “You are someone I want to take care of in order to take care of myself, but not in a selfish way, or in the way of a self-sacrificing martyr. Taking care of people, friends, with anxiety, is a way of self-care in how radically communitarian it is, in how much it shows that you are not alone and you are capable of love: love of both yourself and others that mirror yourself.”

100 years of beauty.

Yesterday, a jury convicted the former Vanderbilt football player who drugged and raped his then-girlfriend, along with other players on the team. He rolled his eyes while the jury announced its decision.

Gleeful Mobs of Women Murdering Men in Western Art History.

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Dana Bolger

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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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