By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

U.S. immigration officials are opening a new detention facility in Texas that will include a unit specifically created for transgender people. 

The San Francisco Police Chief was forced to step down after an officer killed an unarmed Black woman. Learn about the 66 year-old grandmother and the “Frisco 5″ who camped outside SFPD to demand the Chief’s resignation.

In honor of last week’s actions to #SayHerName, here are seven policy paths to stop police violence against Black girls and women.

More than 170,000 undocumented children are now eligible to enroll in state-funded health insurance plans in California.

This satirical Twitter account highlights the sexist phrasing often found in women’s magazines and reverses it to be about men.

 

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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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