By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 12 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

lucky tiger gets the gals adSome vintage sexism via Sociological Images.

Jane Doe in the Steubenville case requested that people who want to support her send donations to a local domestic abuse shelter.

Ugh: “Friend zone” will be added to the Oxford dictionary.

CPAC: Where comedians make rape jokes about rape survivor Ashley Judd.

North Dakota lawmakers are blocking a sex ed program for at-risk youth, proving once again that anti-choicers #1 priority seems to be actively undermining their own goal by ensuring more unplanned pregnancies.

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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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