On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

Here’s all the news we’re reading today:

• South Carolina prosecutors charged a police officer with murder yesterday—Officer Michael Slager is caught on video shooting a fleeing, unarmed Black man eight times. [The Atlantic] 

• Rahm Emanuel topped Chuy Garcia in the Chicago mayoral race.  To understand why so many people were excited about Chuy for mayor, listen to this story from Latino USA. [ABC, Latino Rebels] 

• What industries benefit from undocumented immigrants? Farming, construction, and restaurants rely the most on undocumented workers. [Pew Research]  

• States are planning to pass a slew of new abortion rights restrictions this spring. [ThinkProgress]  

• Two beds and the burdens of feminism: Rebecca Mead compares a 1998 art installation “My Bed” to the current activist art project “Carry That Weight.” [New Yorker] 

• Check out this “radical history” timeline of women’s rights in the United States. [The Nation] 

• You know those times when you feel bad about your body and then you feel bad because you know you’re not supposed to feel bad about your body? This essay captures that feeling. [Role Reboot] 

• LA’s Craft and Folk Art Museum is opening a zine library, including a good lineup of feminist zines. Nice! [CFAM]