By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

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Women are not seeking your validation
Cool street art project addressing street harassment in Philly. “Women Are Not Seeking Your Validation.” [Via]

Alyssa Rosenberg on the Reddit troll, geek misogyny, and how Buffy the Vampire Slayer predicted it all.

“Everything was so terrible all of the time, I can’t imagine how much worse things would have been without Medicaid.”

Women aren’t the only ones who are harassed on the street.

Debate advice for Obama, from your favourite residents of Dillon, TX.

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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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