By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Tell Scott Walker: forced vaginal ultrasounds are not “a cool thing.”

Auburn University employee arrested for distributing date rape drug.

Black women represent 5.8% of SF’s female population, but accounted for 45.5% of all female arrests in 2013.

18 undocumented students who received TheDream.US scholarships share their stories and thoughts on college.

“We can commend the way speaking out has brought about change without making survivors feel like they’re failing us by not publicly disclosing their stories.”

Check out the AAUW’s book club picks.

 

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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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