A photo of Breesha looking into the camera
By Lori Adelman • @ladelman • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Don’t miss Roxane Gay on how the new season of The Bachelorette is a necessary shift in the conversation about Black womanhood.

#FreeBreesha: Breesha Meadows has just accepted a plea deal that could see her back home and with her family at the beginning of 2018.

 

Who should you listen to on abortion? People who have had them.

Stop conflating sex work and trafficking.
Two awesome feminist Kickstarters to check out:  A feminist retelling of Pan and a food stamps cookbook to help people of color & low income folks eat healthy!

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Lori Adelman started blogging with Feministing in 2008, and now runs partnerships and strategy as a co-Executive Director. She is also the Director of Youth Engagement at Women Deliver, where she promotes meaningful youth engagement in international development efforts, including through running the award-winning Women Deliver Young Leaders Program. Lori was formerly the Director of Global Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and has also worked at the United Nations Foundation on the Secretary-General's flagship Every Woman Every Child initiative, and at the International Women’s Health Coalition and Human Rights Watch. As a leading voice on women’s rights issues, Lori frequently consults, speaks and publishes on feminism, activism and movement-building. A graduate of Harvard University, Lori has been named to The Root 100 list of the most influential African Americans in the United States, and to Forbes Magazine‘s list of the “30 Under 30” successful mediamakers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Lori Adelman is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Partnerships.

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