By Verónica Bayetti Flores • @veroconplatanos • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Get yr LOLs: When Hitler discovers Amnesty supports decrim:

St. Louis County has declared a state of emergency after police officers shot and critically wounded a young man on the periphery of the demonstrations taking place in Ferguson this weekend commemorating the one-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death at the hands of the police.

Amber Monroe is the 12th trans woman murdered in the U.S. this year.

This is how rape culture works: A college in Virginia demanded a student and rape survivor’s entire sexual history sexual history … to establish her credibility as a victim.

In a stroke of hilarious genius, women are live-tweeting their periods at Donald Trump.

Target will stop separating toys and bedding into boys’ and girls’ sections.

Interrupting Bernie: Exposing the white supremacy of the American left

 

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Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants' rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She loves cooking, making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued. In addition to writing for Feministing, she is currently spending most of her time doing policy work to reduce the harms of LGBTQ youth of color's interactions with the police and making sure abortion care is accessible to all regardless of their income.

Verónica is a queer immigrant writer, activist, and rabble-rouser.

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