Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Today is the one-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder. Honor his memory by fighting for change.

5 ways the sequester will hurt women.

Our own Janna on reproductive justice and taking the movement beyond the “pro-choice” label. (With quotes from many smart Feministing friends.)

A tumblr full of things said to lady journos.

Excellent piece by Roxane Gay on The Onion‘s joke about Quvenzhané Wallis.

Oh good, now you’ll probably only have to get one transvaginal ultrasound to get a medical abortion in Indiana.

Harlem teens show how the Harlem Shake is actually done.

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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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