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By Dana Bolger • @danabolger • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Support a movie about the real Stonewall: support Happy Birthday, Marsha!

Solitary confinement: a social death.

“We have to figure abortion as about both less and more than choice.”

“Our penchant for incarcerating people has grown so strong that, in many cities, taxpayers frequently spend more than a million dollars locking away residents of a single city block.”

Meet Jennicet Gutiérrez, a month after she interrupted President Obama at a White House LGBT pride event to call attention to transgender detainees in immigrant detention.

“Gaining the right to participate in America’s war machine does not help trans people.”

Women and people of color are more likely than ever to be managers and bosses, but still overwhelming work in lower-paying jobs.

The challenges of surfing while blind.

Haunted by student debt to the grave.

“Seeing our administration criminalizing its own students to protect its fossil fuel assets has helped us realize just how urgent and important the work of student activism is at UMW.”

Our very own Juliana featured in Nat. Brut.

Header image credit: New York Times

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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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