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By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Brazil’s police have killed more people in the past 5 years than US cops have killed in the past 30 – and 80% of their victims were black.

New app allows residents of Rio de Janeiro to report police violence in the city’s favelas.

A new Frontline piece asks: Is the U.S. failing children fleeing violence in Central America?

34.1 percent of Native women report being assaulted at some point in their life. This new book helps Native girls cope after sexual assault.

Wesleyan student shoots a dominatrix photo project at the frat where she was raped.

Today’s Google doodle is Clara Rockmore, the first virtuoso ever on the Theremin, an electronic instrument you might recognize as the creepy sound in old timey horror and sci-fi films. She was an early electronic music pioneer, but – as per usual, being a woman – rarely gets the credit she is due.

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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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