By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Kate Harding on Brownmiller: “Their mothers and grandmothers taught the country that rape is a crime of power. . . With that important groundwork established, young people now have different lessons to teach the rest of us.”

The House has voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

The Women’s Media Center has produced a 10-year study of the Emmy nominations and gender.

Donald Trump doesn’t understand what it means to call women beautiful.

Check out AAUW’s updated map showing the wage gap state by state.

The Atlantic covers Callisto.

“The Colbert bump is real.”

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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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