In today’s newsletter, we reflect on how Valentine’s Day is a day of celebrating all types of radical and fulfilling love, not just romantic! 👀

Scroll down ⏬ for news, feminist wins, book recommendations, features and ways to take action today!

—The Team @ Feminist

📷 A train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, has released large amounts of toxic fumes prompting environmental health concerns.

📷 Environmental Advocates Call for State of Emergency in Ohio Chemical Disaster

📷 Eco Good News with Future Earth!

📷 The US Justice Department clears postal services to carry abortion drugs into states with strong abortion bans.

📷 Arizona stadium to donate extra food from Super Bowl.

📷 Florida has gone back on its efforts to force athletes to give their high schools information about their menstrual cycles.

📷 California Senator Dianne Feinstein announces retirement after 30 years in Senate.

📷 Elementary School. High School. Now College. Some Michigan State students are no strangers to school mass hhootings.

📷 Buffalo grocery mass shooter is sentenced to life in prison following sentencing hearing for racist attack

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🏆 Nicole Lynn, Jalen Hurts’ agent, is the first Black woman to represent a Super Bowl Quarterback.

🏆 Eagles assistant coach Autumn Lockwood to make history as the first Black woman to coach in a Super Bowl.

🏆 Rihanna is the first female billionaire and the first known pregnant person to star in a Super Bowl Halftime Show.

🏆 Celia Cruz will be the first Afro-Latina to appear on a U.S. quarter.

🏆 Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to be involved in the discovery of an element.

🏆 Saudi Arabia to send itsfirst woman astronaut into space

Interested in a new romantic novel?
We curated 5 Black & Queer Novels to add to your reading list 🌟

FEMINIST FOUNDER FEATURE:
AMAHLE NTSHINGA

Amahle Ntshinga, the founder of LUNTU, a conscious online shopping website, sits down with Feminist to discuss her inspiration, motivation, and advice to entrepreneurs.

“I am inspired by remembering that when LUNTU does well, so do our vendors, and all of us will be able to provide good, well-paying jobs for South Africans and help our communities get economic liberation.” 💭 Amahle Ntshinga

Discover her founder story →

Take a deep breath.

Remind yourself of your greatness, elegance, and grace. 💞

Repeat these affirmations:

1. I am one of a kind. 💎

2. I am worthy of love. 🎀

3. I am strong, confident, and fearless. 💪

4. I accept myself and take care of myself. 💘

5. I am enough. ✨

AUTHOR FEATURE

📌 STORIES OF CONSENT x FEMINIST

We’re highlighting personal community-sourced stories of affirmative consent in partnership with our friends at @storiesofconsent. THIS is what consent looks and sounds like, and it’s the BARE MINIMUM. 💥 Visit @storiesofconsent to read additional stories and submit your own!

Stories of Consent was founded by two survivors of sexual violence committed to furthering the conversation around consent education. We are sending love to all the survivors out there, especially the ones who find Valentine’s Day a bit harder. 💌✨

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✅ Sign a petition to tell the courts to stay out of FDA approval of abortion medication

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TEAM FEMINIST
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