On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

Here’s what we’re reading today

• Though exit polling shows that Republicans have “a women problem,” the G.O.P. managed to take control of the Senate. [IBT, New York Times]

• Republicans also won numerous governor races around the country, including the Texas governor seat that Wendy Davis was shooting for. [Mother Jones] 

• But for the first time ever, there are 100 women in Congress. Mia Love is the first black woman Republican to be elected to congress. [Slate and Huffington Post] 

• The hard work of keeping inappropriate, violent, and triggering imagery off of social media is done by  real live people working for outsourcing agencies, primarily in the Philippines. [Salon]

• Check out National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, an organization that works to educate, empower, and fight for the reproductive rights of the Latina community in the US. [NLIRH]

• Let us rejoice: a more ethnically diverse emoji repertoire is in the works for next year. [Mashable]  

• Harvard will be hosting a workshop on anal sex entitled “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101” as part of their annual sexual education event Sex Week. [Jezebel]

• For the last six decades women have been barred from being makeup artists in Bollywood. This past week, the Indian Supreme Court stated this to be unconstitutional. [NPR]

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