Three women hold photos of their daughters, disappeared in Juarez.
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Today the Pope will deliver a mass in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a city known for having one of the highest rates of femicide in the world. Though the murder rate has decreased slightly, the mothers of disappeared women are still pushing for an end to the violence against women. 

The South Dakota Senate has approved a “bathroom bill” that would require students to use restrooms that correspond with the sex they are assigned at birth. The bill is now awaiting the Republican governor’s signature.

The Black women’s writing collective Echoing Ida has a new website! Check it out to learn how they are changing narratives and training Black women writers.

President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal removes all funding for abstinence-only sex education.

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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