By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 12 years ago

What We Missed

obama and clinton
Best pic of the internet today.

New study says voter ID laws could disenfranchise more than 25,000 transgender voters.

Must-read by Jenna Wortham on Girls and race.

A GOOD response to that fear-mongering NYT piece on all the scary Nigerian babies: “Economic development is usually a precursor to limiting population growth, and scare-mongering about exploding populations isn’t helping solve any problems.”

Apparently the MRAs have a new anthem. Cute.

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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