Happy Thursday. Here’s what we’re reading about today:
• Today is a national day of action to end violence against Black women and girls—there are events and protests in more than a dozen cities across the United States. [Black Youth Project]
• The NSA has been forced to temporarily pause its massive collection of phone records. [Guardian]
• Hillary Clinton’s campaign has chosen a prominent immigrant rights advocate, Lorella Praeli, to head up their Latino outreach. [Colorlines]
• Brianna Wu takes an Ohio prosecutor to task for doing nothing about threats she recevied because of Gamergate: “On my hard drive, I have the name of a man that sent me death threats so explicit and shocking, they made a Law & Order episode about them.” [Boing Boing]
• The Girl Scouts officially accepts transgender scouts—and some conservative groups aren’t happy about it. [CNN]
• Why are hundreds of thousands of rape kits still sitting in warehouses, untested? [RH Reality Check]
• Check out this interesting film project from director Christina Choe: She’s funding a new psychological drama about an imposter. [Kickstarter]
What did we miss? Let us know in the comments.
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