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By Dana Bolger • @danabolger • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“In another community, your kid’s found outside looking for you because you’re in the bathtub, it’s ‘Oh, my God.’ In a poor community, it’s called endangering the welfare of your child.'” The New York Times on how CPS is using foster care to punish low-income women of color.

Black girls are getting suspended under racist, sexist dress code policies.

“If boys will be boys, then girls must be grown-ups, whose job it is to protect men from their worst impulses.”

Trump cut $200 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Feministing friend, Marybeth Seitz-Brown, on why austerity policy is neither necessary nor inevitable.

In Vox, our own Mahroh on why Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s meeting with men’s rights groups is so scary.

In case you’ve been living in a cave or reading Laura Kipnis: Faculty harassment of female graduate students is real – and bad.

PS: We talk a lot on the site about how to “know your Title IX.” Now learn how to “save your Title VI.”

Header image via CNN.

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Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and the co-founder of Know Your IX, the national youth-led organization working to end gender violence in schools. She's testified before Congress on Title IX policy and legislative reform, and her writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. She's also a student at Yale Law School, and you can find her on Twitter at @danabolger.

Dana Bolger is a Senior Editor at Feministing and a student at Yale Law School.

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