On Our Radar—Feminist News RoundupCalifornia might ban conversion therapy

Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty. (Photo credit: Voltage Pictures)

TODAY’S MUST-READ NEWS AND ANALYSIS

• A Feminist Weed Farmer’s Guide to Growing. [Broadly]
• Will California become the first state to completely ban conversion therapy? [Teen Vogue]
• Arizona teachers go on strike to demand increased school funding. [NPR]
• What it’s like having an abortion at 7 months pregnant. [The Cut]
• On Amy Schumer’s new film I Feel Pretty and the rise of beauty-standard denialism. [The New York Times]

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Yesterday From Bitch

• As Colorado changes, a crop of emerging politicians is vying to dethrone the old guard. [Evette Dionne]
• We need to move beyond binary survivor-perpetrator framing. [Wendy C. Ortiz]

Related: The Fragility of Legalization

by Ashley Duchemin

October 26, 2017

The further we get from the first state legalizing and the closer we get to legalization across the country, the more the mainstream narrative shifts to erase its dark legacy for capital.