What We Missed

Register for Girls for Gender Equity’s 10 year anniversary fundraiser with Anita Hill! We’re co-sponsoring it!

Check out these posters that celebrate Asian-American masculinity.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is not allowed to testify during a congressional hearing on a bill banning abortions in D.C. after 20 weeks. Sure, because it’s not like it’s an issue that affects her constituents or anything.

Dudes, stop slut-shaming Rihanna. She’s way cooler than all ya’ll, anyway.

Trying not to be hurt that Feministing didn’t get a shout-out on Randall Terry’s new website for “pro-life warriors.”

In NYC? Join the silent march to end Stop and Frisk on Father’s Day. Zerlina has the deets.

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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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